Example sentences of "go on [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
3 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
4 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
5 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
6 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
7 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
8 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
9 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
10 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
11 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
12 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
13 | What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you . |
14 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
15 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
16 | The list could go on for a long time . |
17 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
18 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
19 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
20 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
21 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
22 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
23 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
24 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
25 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
26 | The noise went on for a long time . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | That went on for a long time . |
29 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
30 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |