Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | She lay on her stomach on top of the hay , dusty spikes tickling her ears and her nostrils and said , ‘ I wish I was a farmer , I could go on harvesting for ever and ever and ever . ’ |
2 | It is the work of the resulting army of dedicated and sincere reformers who through the centuries have fought to make mankind accept that the Second Choice is the right one , that has provided , and will go on providing for ever , the real power for the production of the good that will be assigned to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
3 | We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’ |
4 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
5 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |