Example sentences of "[verb] go on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 3 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 4 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 5 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 6 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
| 7 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 8 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 9 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 10 | If you start to go on to the other p , side of the page , start again . |
| 11 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 12 | Although most of our Nursery pupils do go on to the Junior and subsequently to the Senior School at Heriot 's , transfer is not automatic . |
| 13 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 14 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 15 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 16 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 17 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 18 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 19 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |
| 20 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |