Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 4 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 5 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 6 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 7 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 11 | But it was Berty getting stuck on the it did go on for so long . |
| 12 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 14 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 15 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 16 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 17 | 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 . |