Example sentences of "[noun] have 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 DOWN in Nashville , its capital , the 1990s boom in American country music has gone on long enough to prompt some heady forecasts .
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