Example sentences of "went on for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 2 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 3 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 4 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 7 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 8 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 9 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 10 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 11 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 12 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 15 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 16 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 17 | This went on for some time . |
| 18 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 19 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 20 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 21 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 22 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 23 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |