Example sentences of "went [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 2 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 3 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 4 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 5 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 6 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The festivities went on for days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 11 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 14 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 15 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 16 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | We went on for what seemed like hours and still none of us understood . |
| 18 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 19 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 20 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 21 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 22 | This sport went on for hours , well into the evening . |
| 23 | It went on for days and thirst was a terrible thing , much worse than hunger ; so that , remembering his torture , how his lips had cracked , one rainy day , at random , on impulse , he had lapped a drink out of a puddle . |
| 24 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 27 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 28 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 29 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 30 | Now the story of Britain 's biggest-ever robbery — and the massive money laundering operation that went on for months afterwards — will be told tomorrow night in ITV 's £2 million drama Fool 's Gold ( 9.05pm ) . |