Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 4 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 5 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |