Example sentences of "[v-ing] on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 5 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 6 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 7 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 8 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 9 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 10 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 11 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 12 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |
| 13 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 14 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 15 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 16 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 17 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |