Example sentences of "go on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 3 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 5 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 6 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 8 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 9 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 10 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 11 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 12 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 13 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 14 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 15 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 17 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 18 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 19 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 20 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 21 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 22 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 23 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 25 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 26 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 27 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 28 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 29 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 30 | The list could go on for a long time . |