Example sentences of "went on until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wheal Friendship Mine produced lead , iron , copper and arsenic from right under the main street , and the production of arsenic here went on until 1925 . |
| 2 | The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday . |
| 3 | I usually left the night meeting about 2.00 pm , but quite often after that Anthony [ Eden ] had long telephone conversations with Guy Mollet , the Prime Minister of France , which went on until 4.00 or 5.00 am . |
| 4 | This started at about midday and went on until late afternoon , when everyone was so full of food that they could hardly move . |
| 5 | In India , though the first stations appeared in the 1850s , the finest examples came later and the building of lines to the deepest recesses of the subcontinent went on until 1914 . |
| 6 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |