Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 32 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | That went on for a long time . |
| 35 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 36 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 37 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 38 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 39 | This went on for a long time . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 42 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 43 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 44 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 45 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 46 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 47 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 48 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 49 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 50 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 51 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 52 | More than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , and all of the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) . |
| 53 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 54 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 55 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 56 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 57 | None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine . |
| 58 | If the lamp remains on for a longer time it is possible that the incorrect outer ( track ) connection to the rotary potentiometer VR2 has been used . |
| 59 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 60 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |