Example sentences of "went on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 2 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 9 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 14 | And that went on for two or three weeks you know , and I said to the the station master at when he came across on his once a week visits he would come across . |
| 15 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 16 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 17 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 18 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 21 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 22 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 23 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 24 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 29 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 30 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |