Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] go on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only the pantomime could go on for ever . |
| 2 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 3 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 4 | ‘ He seemed to think the meeting might go on for a while . ’ |
| 5 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 6 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 7 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 8 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 9 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 10 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 11 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 12 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 13 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 14 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 15 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 16 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 18 | erm how long this system will go on for , well in order to be able to refer back to the nineteen nineties , who knows we might , neither of us might be here |
| 19 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |