Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 3 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 5 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That went on for a long time . |
| 8 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 9 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 10 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 11 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 12 | This went on for a long time . |
| 13 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 14 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 15 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 16 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 17 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 18 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 19 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 20 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 21 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 22 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 23 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 24 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 25 | Mark crossed the imposing entrance hall and went out for the last time . |
| 26 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |
| 27 | But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net . |