Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 2 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 3 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 4 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 5 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 6 | It 's best to have a time limit for a team 's deliberations — say thirty seconds — or the game goes on for ever . |
| 7 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 8 | It goes on for ever . |
| 9 | The cultural-ideological project of global capitalism is to persuade people to consume above their own perceived needs in order to perpetuate the accumulation of capital for private profit , in other words , to ensure that the global capitalist system goes on for ever . |
| 10 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 11 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 14 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 15 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 16 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 17 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 18 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 19 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 20 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 21 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 22 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 23 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 24 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 25 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 26 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 27 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 28 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 29 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 30 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |