Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 2 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 3 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , Rifleman Willoughby , the Board will watch how you get on with some interest … and we 'll interview you again in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 5 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 6 | I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases . |
| 7 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 8 | That was Sarah who did the Works Skills for Women Course at Fast Forward and that 's now helped her to get on to some G C S E courses at college . |
| 9 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 10 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 11 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 12 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 13 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 14 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 15 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 16 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |