Example sentences of "go on for [art] [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 is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 10 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 14 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 15 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 16 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 17 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 20 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 21 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 22 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 23 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 24 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 25 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 26 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 30 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |