Example sentences of "[verb] go on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I right in thinking that you would n't want to go on with these incursions ? |
| 2 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 3 | We have brought pride back to Teesside and we want to go on to greater things . ’ |
| 4 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 5 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 7 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 8 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 9 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
| 10 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 11 | Am I made to go on with this relationship . |
| 12 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 13 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 14 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 15 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 16 | The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom . |
| 17 | There 's probably some name calling going on with TI retorting , ‘ well , it is your design ’ . |
| 18 | Because people have done one job , during the day , and then having to go on to another job at night , and make no mistake , that , you know , this is the sort of legislation that we need , to protect us , the public from what , you know , the consequences of somebody working |
| 19 | Should girls brought up in Britain be allowed to go on to further education ? |
| 20 | It looks like you know what you 're talking about , does n't mean you do but i I mean if you use th if you if you start going on about that thing that there is er when some what on earth ? |
| 21 | But of course Robert was right and the rider did go on to greater things . |
| 22 | Fortunately , the majority warm to it and do go on to fulfilled fatherhood . |
| 23 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 24 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 25 | I 've gone on to decaffeinated coffee I do drink decaffeinated |
| 26 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 29 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |