Example sentences of "[adv prt] for ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 2 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 3 | Now she says that she wo n't go on for ever . |
| 4 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 5 | They go on for ever . |
| 6 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 7 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 8 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 9 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 10 | He launched his poems of silk down the Yellow River ; and he never knew that his silken ships would sail on for ever . |
| 11 | Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ? |
| 12 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 13 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lunch-times can go on for ever if you have no friends and no one invites you to join in with what they are doing . |
| 16 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 17 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you would have got up and walked out , but I wanted to stay on for ever . |
| 19 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 20 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 21 | It would n't go on for ever . |
| 22 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 23 | I have never been so happy in my life and I know that it will go on for ever . |
| 24 | After all , in a gruelling sport like wrestling you can not go on for ever . ’ |
| 25 | And Deviation 's ‘ Hammond Song ’ reminds one of the music they have in those appalling films about surfing that go on for ever , except with a dance beat . |
| 26 | Whether or not the avoidable harm , injury , and suffering should then be called ‘ crime ’ is a point legal theorists then dance on for ever ; but a ‘ crime ’ by any other name causes at least just as much pain and grief . |
| 27 | He seemed to have talent too , though the neural induction gauntlet was a bit old-fashioned now , even in Schiaparelli where things hang on for ever . |
| 28 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 29 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |