Example sentences of "[verb] on for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 2 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 3 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 4 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 5 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 6 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 7 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 8 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 9 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 10 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 13 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 14 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 15 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 19 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 23 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 26 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 27 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 28 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 29 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 30 | 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 . |