Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 2 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 5 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 6 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 7 | You can ca , and it carries on for miles around as well does n't it ? |
| 8 | That sets out the growth of the savings and which it contains in the report with paragraph and appendix reference numbers on them and it sets out for each of the groups , their proposed budgets . |
| 9 | I thought he was a plucky old man and it worked out for him very well . |