Sentence examples for work went on from inspiring English sources

So the valuable, if paternalistic, work went on, until 1959, when the remaining money was converted into annuities.

And so the work went on even as Wall Streeters learned which of their colleagues had died and which firms had lost the bulk of their personnel.

He blew up frequently at work, went on drinking binges, and at one point, he writes in "Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers," his recently released book, he downed half a bottle of Tylenol PM in a half-hearted suicide attempt.

The book set a first-week sales record for a nonfiction work, went on to sell more than one million copies in the first month following publication, and was translated into twelve foreign languages.

"We could only do so much," she said, adding that planners had originally intended to shut down the downtown spur entirely, before relenting and agreeing to keep one lane open while work went on.

The work went on.

Work went on around the clock.

Nonetheless, according to residents, work went on.

Work went on in the living room for hours.

Work went on late at night, they said.

The demand for "skivvies", or maids-of-all-work, went on rising for decades, as a newly created professional middle class looked for the servants their betters had always had.