Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 2 | Rita can go on for her , and Jack 's understudy can take over as the maid , Rita 's part — we 'll make it a footman . |
| 3 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 4 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 5 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 6 | Now she says that she wo n't go on for ever . |
| 7 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 8 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 9 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be nice living here , ’ I said , changing the subject , ‘ but how d' you go on for shopping ? ’ |
| 11 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 12 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 13 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 14 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 16 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 17 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 18 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |
| 19 | 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 . ) |
| 20 | Lunch-times can go on for ever if you have no friends and no one invites you to join in with what they are doing . |
| 21 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 22 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 23 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 24 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 25 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 26 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 27 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 28 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 30 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |