Example sentences of "[noun] went on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research went on throughout the Eighties , attracting huge investment . |
| 2 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 3 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 4 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 5 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 6 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 7 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 8 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 9 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 10 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 11 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 12 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 13 | At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form . |
| 14 | Frantic consultations went on with the Chinese , the newly-established Gomulka in Poland , with the Romanians , Bulgarians , Czechs , even with Tito . |
| 15 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 16 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 17 | Scottish graduates went on to the major foreign universities , notably to Paris , and to Cologne , Louvain , Bologna and Montpellier . |
| 18 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
| 19 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 20 | Most , in both categories , left after taking the School Certificate ( if not sooner ) , but a trickle went on into the sixth form and even to the universities . |
| 21 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |