Example sentences of "[pron] went on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 2 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 3 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 4 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 5 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 6 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 7 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 8 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 9 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 10 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 11 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 12 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 13 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 14 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 15 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 16 | We went on for what seemed like hours and still none of us understood . |
| 17 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 18 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 19 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On another night , he went on for his Fred Astaire routine , after one of three ultra-quick changes , with his flies open . |
| 22 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 23 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 24 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 25 | It went on for days and thirst was a terrible thing , much worse than hunger ; so that , remembering his torture , how his lips had cracked , one rainy day , at random , on impulse , he had lapped a drink out of a puddle . |
| 26 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 27 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 28 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 29 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 30 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |