Example sentences of "[pron] go on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 6 | Are n't you going on from a mistake ? |
| 7 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 8 | ‘ When you go on to a slope with hard snow and ice which is relatively steep then you need stiff sole boots which have an iron bar under the rubber , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ And the château had become anathema to him , ’ she went on after a moment . |
| 10 | After a plaisent meal aboard the Britannia , we went on to a casino where we met Sonja , a gypsy from Montana . |
| 11 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
| 12 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 13 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 14 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , cara , ’ he went on after a moment , ‘ a Taurus man is n't the right mate for you . ’ |
| 16 | ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting . |
| 17 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 18 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 19 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 20 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 21 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 22 | In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment . |
| 23 | Or , though the process or institution may be , so to speak , on the doorstep , its accessibility may be limited : what goes on inside a defence research establishment or a Masonic Lodge are obvious examples . |
| 24 | Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university . |
| 25 | THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head . |
| 26 | I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’ |
| 27 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 28 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 29 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |