Example sentences of "went on for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 2 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 3 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 4 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 5 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 6 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 7 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 8 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 11 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 12 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 15 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 16 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 17 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 22 | This went on for some time . |
| 23 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 24 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 25 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 26 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 29 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 30 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |