Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 2 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 3 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 4 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 5 | Trials are presently on for selections . |
| 6 | It 's just a little game Tom puts on for visitors . |
| 7 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 8 | On the patio , some Italian children were rehearsing their contribution to the show being put on for parents that evening . |
| 9 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 10 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 12 | My daughter 's been trying to get on for ages . |
| 13 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 14 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 15 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 16 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 17 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |
| 18 | We have n't had the computer on for ages have we ? |
| 19 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 20 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 21 | not been on for ages . |
| 22 | Being left to hold on for ages and ages . |
| 23 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 24 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 25 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 26 | But the individual members of Lloyd 's , mostly people who were dabbling way over their head in a subject about which they knew little , were often persuaded to hang on for things to improve . |
| 27 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 28 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 29 | Shoppers hang on for bargains |
| 30 | DIR — but read on for warnings about using BACKUP with pseudo-devices . ) |