Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think there 's enough of it in the educational profession , or do you think that one ought to go in for much more evaluation ? |
| 2 | According to the hon. Member for Sedgefield , once a programme is introduced it must carry on for ever , regardless of whether it is the most effective way of achieving those aims . |
| 3 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 4 | Okay we 'll give up for today . |
| 5 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 6 | Hold on c can we sort of stop this now or we 'll go on for ever |
| 7 | It 'll go on for much longer . |
| 8 | He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again . |
| 9 | It 's in our interests — you 'll come back for more ! |
| 10 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 11 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 12 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 13 | Children could go on for ever finding out information about dinosaurs and be no nearer satisfying this vague purpose . |
| 14 | She knew from experience that if she started a conversation with the girls about anything other than business , it could go on for ever , and Christina did not have time to listen to Todney 's domestic problems this morning . |
| 15 | ROS : It could go on for ever . |
| 16 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 17 | If only the pantomime could go on for ever . |
| 18 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 19 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 20 | Presumably there 's so many songs in your repertoire that you you 've no need really to get a new one er you as artists might want to get a new one but you 've got so many er evergreens I mean you could go on for ever with just the evergreens could n't you ? |
| 21 | The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever . |
| 22 | He said Mr Gummer had been ‘ out to Mr Lilley 's holiday cottage , and it cost the taxpayer £2,000 for him to fly back when they could fly back for less than £200 apiece ’ . |
| 23 | He launched his poems of silk down the Yellow River ; and he never knew that his silken ships would sail on for ever . |
| 24 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 25 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 26 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 27 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 28 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 29 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |
| 30 | Our friend will carry on for ever and never return . ’ |