Example sentences of "[verb] on for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 3 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 4 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 5 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 6 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 7 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 8 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 9 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 10 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 11 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 12 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 14 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 15 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 16 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 17 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 18 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 19 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 20 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 21 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 22 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 23 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 24 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 27 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 28 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 29 | This went on for some time . |
| 30 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |