Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 2 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 7 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 11 | He would hang on for that . |
| 12 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 15 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |
| 16 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 17 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 18 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 21 | First Response have a freephone help-line , manned by trained advisors , which you can ring on for more specialist , individual advice on using both tests . |
| 22 | One thing you can bet on for sure . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I have four or five people I can take on for any one of those companies so nobody 's in competition with |
| 24 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 25 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 26 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 27 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |