Example sentences of "go on for a [adj] [noun] " 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 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 4 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 6 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 7 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 9 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 13 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 14 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 15 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 16 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 17 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 18 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 19 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 20 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 21 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 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 . |