Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 5 | We went on for what seemed like hours and still none of us understood . |
| 6 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 7 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 8 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On another night , he went on for his Fred Astaire routine , after one of three ultra-quick changes , with his flies open . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 13 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 18 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 19 | 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 . " |
| 20 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 21 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 22 | Moreover , the whole process was self-perpetuating ; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it went on for ever . |
| 23 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 24 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 25 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 26 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 27 | When people looked after their own at home , you know , it went on for years and years , did n't it ? |
| 28 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 30 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |