Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 2 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 3 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |
| 4 | But he admitted : ‘ I believe that unemployment will go on rising for some time yet , but what is certain is that the measures I have taken will assist the employment situation . ’ |
| 5 | " Well , whether he has or not , " said Hazel , " we ca n't go on looking for him . |
| 6 | You 'll be safe here , and we 'll go on looking for your mammy and daddy . |
| 7 | She lay on her stomach on top of the hay , dusty spikes tickling her ears and her nostrils and said , ‘ I wish I was a farmer , I could go on harvesting for ever and ever and ever . ’ |
| 8 | It is the work of the resulting army of dedicated and sincere reformers who through the centuries have fought to make mankind accept that the Second Choice is the right one , that has provided , and will go on providing for ever , the real power for the production of the good that will be assigned to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
| 9 | We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’ |
| 10 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 11 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 12 | Then , years later , when he bought his own table ( and a house big enough to put it in ) , and we started playing regularly , almost weekly , we wondered whether we should go on playing for money . |
| 13 | It will go on waiting for you until the day you enter it . |
| 14 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 15 | What 's more , he 'll go on improving for some time because he was a late starter at 24 and he is still developing . ’ |
| 16 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 17 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 18 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |
| 19 | Your Committee will , of course , go on working for the continuation of the Line , but we need your help and your influence — GO BY TRAIN , TRAVEL ON THE HEART OF WALES LINE . |
| 20 | So , instead , she said , ‘ If all you do is fight with him , why on earth do you go on working for him ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 22 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 24 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 25 | If people start some trouble or something like that then I 'll be in there — but I do n't go round looking for it or anything like that . |