Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 3 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 5 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That went on for a long time . |
| 8 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 9 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 10 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 11 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This went on for a long time . |
| 14 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 15 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 16 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 17 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 18 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |