Example sentences of "went [adv] for some time " 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 movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 3 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 4 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 5 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 10 | This went on for some time . |