Example sentences of "[verb] on for another [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 2 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 3 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 4 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 5 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 6 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 7 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 8 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 9 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 10 | Jenking let the ship run on for another fifteen minutes or so . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 12 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 13 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 14 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 15 | John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 18 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 19 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 20 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 21 | Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road . |
| 22 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 23 | An hour of wall-to-wall Carpeting would have been perfect , but they would n't get offstage , and dragged on for another 30 minutes . |
| 24 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 25 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |