Example sentences of "went on [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 . |