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Example sentences of "went [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside .
2	At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress .
3	It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says .
4	This sort of exchange went on for a long time .
5	‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police .
6	The noise went on for a long time .
7	He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right .
8	That went on for a long time .
9	And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR .
10	The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time .
11	The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room .
12	The last dance went on for a long time .
13	This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time .
14	This went on for a long time .
15	The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening .
16	The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel .
17	And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " .
18	Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena .
19	The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit .
20	His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society .
21	Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't
22	We went in for a closer look .
23	Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn .
24	All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme .
25	After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days .
26	In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory .
27	Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did .
28	Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died .
29	I went up for a closer look .
30	Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk .