Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for a long " 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 stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 10 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 11 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 12 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 13 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 14 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 15 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 16 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 17 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 18 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 21 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 23 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That went on for a long time . |
| 26 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 27 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 28 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 29 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 30 | 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 . |