Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 2 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 3 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 4 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |
| 5 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 6 | ‘ He 'll go on for hours . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This could go on for hours . |
| 10 | I could go on for pages . |
| 11 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 12 | We can have an infinite chess game which will go on for months . |
| 13 | The room , Robert felt , might go on for yards and yards . |
| 14 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
| 15 | Once you start linking drama and topic work you 'll find that your drama projects can go on for weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 17 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 20 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 21 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 22 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 23 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 26 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 27 | Besides , the KGB does n't go in for assassinations these days . ’ |
| 28 | I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me . |
| 29 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 30 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |