Example sentences of "had gone on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 2 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 5 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 6 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 7 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 8 | We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention . |
| 9 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 10 | Whatever had gone on in those weeks apart , whatever course of action their friends had counselled , a minor transformation had occurred . |
| 11 | Secondly , the bird could copy what another more experienced bird had done ; the process of selecting the actions best adapted to the environment had gone on in previous generations and been transmitted socially . |
| 12 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |