Example sentences of "went [adv prt] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 4 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 6 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That went on for a long time . |
| 9 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 10 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 11 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 12 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 13 | This went on for a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 16 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 17 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 18 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 22 | Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't |
| 23 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 24 | Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print . |
| 25 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 26 | In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory . |
| 27 | I went up for a closer look . |
| 28 | Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce . |
| 29 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 30 | Mark crossed the imposing entrance hall and went out for the last time . |