Example sentences of "had go on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 2 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 3 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 4 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 6 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 7 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 8 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 9 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 10 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 11 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |