Example sentences of "gone [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it .
2 This saga has gone on for quite some time .
3 This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it .
4 Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now .
5 This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’
6 Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason .
7 COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour .
8 This separation has gone on for far too long .
9 Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long .
10 Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society .
11 And things have gone on since then and the band still plays , er they have not the easiest task of finding people , because of change and so on , but er their families and friends and , and even some of the youngsters that learn at school that , a fireman 's friends and relatives have joined the band and they play out in the parks and they , and they play in the spar pavilion and they , they provide concerts for people , and Christmas times they play in the town .
12 To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses .
13 By the mid-nineteen fifties many Orcadians had begun the task of modernizing their homes by building new ones a process which over the past three decades seems to have gone on with ever increasing frenzy .
14 I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there .
15 Some scientists who think that there is little likelihood of there being any other technological civilization in the Galaxy agree that the approach is Indeed ‘ uniquely logical ’ — and have gone on from there to support their own case .
16 It 's just gone on from there really !
17 And we gradually done our own church and things have gone on from there .
18 Nelson Rowe says he was given his dad 's old kart for christmas when he was five and he 's gone on from there … it 's brilliant good fun and quite dangerous with lots of crashes
19 My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’
20 I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true .
21 Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for .
22 Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt .
23 Erm in terms of Community budget so this Environment Committee and Conservatives gone down to below sort of seventy two million so we are not actually getting any sort of .
24 It 's gone down to about five point something has n't it ?
25 Yes it started off at er twelve sockets in these house and that er , it must of gone down to about er eight sockets in some houses .
26 Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so .
27 Er , you see the number on the left is two hundred and forty one thousand and two hundred and seventy four thousand so it 's gone down by approximately thirty three thousand bytes .
28 The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns .
29 But i It 's obvious that you 've always y gone in for quite stylish displays of your fruit too have n't you ?
30 We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’
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