Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 . |
| 3 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 4 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 5 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 6 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 7 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 8 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 9 | It 's hard to cope , but we have to carry on for everyone 's sake . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 11 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 12 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 13 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 14 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 15 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 16 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 17 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 18 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 19 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 20 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 21 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 24 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 25 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 27 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 28 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 29 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 30 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |