Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] go [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | This chaos has gone on too long . ’ |
2 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
3 | Then Dad decided that the banging had gone on long enough . |
4 | A few days after the première , Constanze 's mother decided that matters had gone on long enough between Mozart and Constanze , who had abandoned the fraught atmosphere of home to take temporary refuge with Mozart 's friend and patroness , the Baroness von Waldstädten . |
5 | The joke has gone on long enough . |
6 | ‘ This planning process has gone on long enough and Darlington deserves a development on this site . ’ |
7 | The last two years had gone by very slowly for Honor West . |
8 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
9 | However , none of the studies have gone on long enough to make reliable predictions . |
10 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
11 | ‘ But this game has gone on too long . |
12 | The day 's cheese-making gets going at around 8am when Karen adds a specially prepared culture or ‘ starter ’ , which is designed to slowly increase the milk 's acidity . |
13 | DOWN in Nashville , its capital , the 1990s boom in American country music has gone on long enough to prompt some heady forecasts . |