Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 4 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 6 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 7 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 8 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 9 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 10 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 11 | KINGS FOUNTAIN was last night given the clean bill of health he required to line up for tomorrow 's Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 12 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 13 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 14 | Another sideline of this erm little secondary education section that erm Arthur was in charge of was the library and erm the Library Sub Committee he erm had to look out for much to the annoyance of erm Bill who was the librarian at the time |
| 15 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 16 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 17 | ‘ I think you would have got up and walked out , but I wanted to stay on for ever . |