Example sentences of "[verb] on for another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day .
2 Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification .
3 No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer .
4 If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power .
5 Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom .
6 And it 's still going on for another season .
7 Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour .
8 ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’
9 Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ?
10 I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week .
11 It will go on for another while anyway we hope .
12 So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again .
13 ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’
14 The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances .
15 The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up .
16 In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee .
17 So he steps on for another mouthful ; and this time does n't jump back .
18 She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack .
19 The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up .
20 The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed .
21 Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city .
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