Example sentences of "[noun] go on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 2 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 4 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The festivities went on for days . |
| 7 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 8 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 11 | There was quite genuine concern you know , when blues parties went on for for days and days and days . |
| 12 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 13 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 14 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 15 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 16 | There has been work going on for sometime in developing user friendly programs for statistical analysis which are ‘ intelligent ’ in that they include many checks for pitfalls and errors . |
| 17 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 18 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 19 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 20 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 21 | This sport went on for hours , well into the evening . |
| 22 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 23 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 24 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 25 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 26 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 27 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 28 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 29 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 30 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |