Example sentences of "go on for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties .
2 It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years .
3 As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’
4 It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
5 Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war .
6 In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years .
7 It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks .
8 Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days .
9 The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years .
10 PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway .
11 And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship .
12 There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time .
13 One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes .
14 Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term .
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