Example sentences of "it went on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It went on to nine before Thomas put an end to it .
2 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 .
3 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 . "
4 Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days .
5 It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes .
6 It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while .
7 There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing .
8 that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night
9 and it went on like that
10 It went on like that , the three of us never quite living together , never wholly apart .
11 It went on like that all the way out of Lima , Ward 's voice sometimes hard and accusing , sometimes dangerously quiet , and the Indian mumbling his replies , and sometimes answering in his own tongue .
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