Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the deluge , life goes on for trout |
| 2 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 3 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 4 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 5 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 6 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 7 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 8 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 9 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 10 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 11 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 12 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 13 | So the good life goes on for George . |
| 14 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 15 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 16 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 17 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 18 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 19 | It 's best to have a time limit for a team 's deliberations — say thirty seconds — or the game goes on for ever . |
| 20 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 21 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 22 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 23 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 24 | It goes on for ever . |
| 25 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 26 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 27 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 28 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 29 | She likes to make sure everyone knows exactly where the pain is , how long it goes on for and whether it 's burning , stabbing , singeing or a combination of all three . |
| 30 | The cultural-ideological project of global capitalism is to persuade people to consume above their own perceived needs in order to perpetuate the accumulation of capital for private profit , in other words , to ensure that the global capitalist system goes on for ever . |