Example sentences of "go on for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 3 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 4 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 5 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 6 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 7 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 8 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 9 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 10 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 11 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 12 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 13 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 14 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 15 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 17 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 18 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 19 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 20 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 21 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 24 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 25 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 26 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 27 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 30 | 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 . |