Example sentences of "this went on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had .
2 This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party .
3 This went on for five whole days —
4 This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door .
5 This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings .
6 This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers .
7 This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away .
8 And this went on for years this ?
9 This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention .
10 Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on .
11 This went on for a long time .
12 And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ?
13 This went on for two weeks .
14 This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell .
15 This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county !
16 This went on for quite a while before it spoke again .
17 This went on for some time .
18 shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that !
19 But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft .
20 Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration .
21 All this went on in front of Mr Barr and linesman David Magill , which let me say , was the result of an over-acted injury by another Linfield player .
22 This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation .
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