Example sentences of "[pron] go on for [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 6 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 7 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 8 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 9 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 10 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 11 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 12 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 13 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 14 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 15 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 16 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 20 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 21 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |