Example sentences of "[adj] went on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 2 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 3 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 8 | This went on for some time . |
| 9 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 10 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 11 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 12 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 13 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 14 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 15 | In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education . |