Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 2 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 3 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 4 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 5 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 6 | It goes on for ever . |
| 7 | It goes back for ever . |
| 8 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 9 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 10 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 11 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 12 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 13 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 14 | Moreover , the whole process was self-perpetuating ; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it went on for ever . |
| 15 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |