Example sentences of "[modal v] go on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 3 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 4 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 5 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 7 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 8 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 9 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 10 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 11 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 12 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 13 | But the Queen will see just about every past and present RAF aircraft a flypast which will go on for three quarters of an hour . |
| 14 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 15 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 16 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 19 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |