Example sentences of "go for ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it goes for ever and ever |
| 2 | And it was a huge forest and it went for ever . |
| 3 | It 's like stumbling across a whole world that you thought had gone for ever . ’ |
| 4 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 5 | I could not imagine what they were , apart from an unattainable marvel , part of a world gone for ever . |
| 6 | It can not be forgotten or surpassed though gone for ever . |
| 7 | Now it was gone for ever . |
| 8 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 9 | The end of Act I is a recognition scene ; a recognition by the Marschallin of the kind we all experience when we realize that something we cherished is gone for ever . |
| 10 | The UK is the biggest consumer of tropical hardwoods after Japan , and 99 per cent of our supplies come from unsustainable sources , in other words forest that is gone for ever once the loggers have moved in . |
| 11 | And , looking down at the still-outstretched arm , the glazed and open eyes , the great scarlet pool soaking into the earth , she knew that it was a body , that he had gone for ever , that there was nothing she need fear from him ever again . |
| 12 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 13 | Those growling , nippy two-seaters that you thought had gone for ever ? |
| 14 | ‘ The murderous Gruncher , who has gobbled up so many thousands of us Minpins , has gone for ever ! |
| 15 | That word and the world it represented have gone for ever , trodden into the mud of Flanders . |
| 16 | Yet , ever since Toulouse , he had wondered whether his nerve had gone for ever . |
| 17 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 18 | In America , and in his memories of a life still to be wished for although lost and gone for ever , that boy could be glimpsed in Eliot also . |
| 19 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 20 | But some of the mystique surrounding the presidency had gone for ever , and future holders of the office were bound to be scrutinized more closely than ever before . |
| 21 | For the next two year a smaller race around Brescia was held but the real Mille Miglia was gone for ever . |
| 22 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 23 | No doubt , he had found another woman , and to Sandra and to Molly , he was gone for ever . |
| 24 | It was in these and these alone that we were determined to reach our goal , for not only was our finance conditional on such a journey , but also it might be the last opportunity for anyone to make this historic voyage before the Bugis ' prahus were gone for ever . |
| 25 | As the days had gone by and there had been no sign of her , Kraal had become more and more convinced that Creggan 's belief in her return was hopeless and that Minch was gone for ever . |
| 26 | If she had entertained any doubts before , they had gone for ever . |
| 27 | The Rosenthals and Godowskis are gone for ever . |
| 28 | Then there is a wail from ahead , a roar and a burst of light ; the face is gone for ever . |
| 29 | These maps represent something , certainly , but not the ultimate mystery of the first creation that has gone for ever with its scar inside one huge unstable atom . |
| 30 | What this photograph says to me is not that happiness is gone for ever , but that it 's repeatable . |