Example sentences of "went on 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 . |