Example sentences of "[pron] go on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 2 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 3 | When I fight I go on to the end , as I did in 1926 . ’ |
| 4 | Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ? |
| 5 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 6 | I went on down the passage , towards the green baize door that closed the back premises off from the gentry 's quarters , pushed the door open , and trod tentatively into the front hall . |
| 7 | ‘ I went on down the corridor to see my grandfather , wondering what it was that would take half an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ But over all the years , I went on with the pretence — putting on a face , or faces , pretending that life was ‘ normal ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 10 | So I went on to the Home Office ; they 've got two employees with the name , but one 's a woman and she 's off having a baby . |
| 11 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 12 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 13 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 14 | After a delightful dinner party with young friends in their lovely Phillimore Gardens home , I went on to the Lancaster Hotel , where the Diamond Ball , which was an inaugural ball for SANE ( Schizophrenia A National Emergency ) was taking place in the hotel 's new ballroom which I was told seats 1,400 guests . |
| 15 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 16 | Like this afternoon — I went on about the armchairs being slashed in Madge 's house — We were talking about you at the time . |
| 17 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 18 | I went on into the room where a middle-aged Moroccan woman lay sprawled on his bed , open-legged and completely naked . |
| 19 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 20 | At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action . |
| 21 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 22 | The House of Commons , particularly , but also the House of Lords , is often thought of as a club and the exchange of views and striking of bargains which goes on outside the chamber can be and frequently is of much greater significance than the public posturing which goes on within it . |
| 23 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 24 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 25 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 26 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 27 | So er er th th there were some er quite substantial er discussions and debates which er which er which went on in the family over the years of course . |
| 28 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 29 | And he thrust her briskly into a small , book-lined room , and himself went on along a passage to the hall and the telephone , leaving the door open between them . |
| 30 | There was nothing going on in the centre of . |