Example sentences of "[det] went [adv prt] for " 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 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 21 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 22 | Some are coming from as far afield as Germany , so today , despite abysmal flying conditions , they all went up for a rehearsal . |
| 23 | Then we all went out for a drink . |
| 24 | Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo |
| 25 | That went on for a long time . |
| 26 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 27 | 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 . |