Example sentences of "[vb mod] go on for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll go on for hours . ’ |
| 2 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 3 | The room , Robert felt , might go on for yards and yards . |
| 4 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 5 | This could go on for hours . |
| 6 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 7 | I could go on for pages . |
| 8 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 10 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 11 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 12 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 13 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 14 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 15 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 16 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 17 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 18 | We can have an infinite chess game which will go on for months . |
| 19 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
| 20 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
| 21 | Once you start linking drama and topic work you 'll find that your drama projects can go on for weeks . |
| 22 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |