Example sentences of "it went [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . " |
3 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
4 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
5 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |