Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 6 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 7 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 9 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 10 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 11 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 12 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 14 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 15 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 16 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 17 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 18 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 19 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 20 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 21 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 22 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 25 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 27 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That went on for a long time . |
| 30 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |