Example sentences of "[pron] go on to tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on to tell her about Wilson , Connie Fraser and Vecchi , or most of it . |
| 2 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |
| 3 | She went on to tell Tamar that she and Elizabeth would not come up to Kirkbymoorside to stand the market in the future . |
| 4 | His name is Mr William Charles Francis ; age 26 ; occupation journalist ; religion Church of England ; next-of-kin father ; addresses of both in the Admission Book ; admitted to Casualty at 10.20 A.M. — ’ and she went on to tell us all I had heard from Humber . |
| 5 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 6 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 7 | He went on to tell them about the school . |
| 8 | Instead he went on to tell them that the shortest time they kept pupils was for two years but that usually they tried to move people back into mainstream at the time for transfer to middle/upper school . |
| 9 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 10 | And he went on to tell me admiringly how in the Arab quarter the police-men walk in pairs . |
| 11 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 12 | He went on to tell Sadat that the US ambassador kept looking at his watch at the airport , 'saying that every minute I delayed was not in , my interest nor in the interest of Iran . " |
| 13 | He went on to tell his uncle about Stella , and Lucy 's willingness to assist with the next day 's barbecue for the rafting party . |
| 14 | My appointments and everything I 'd got before I came along and erm he went on to tell me , if company . |
| 15 | Ven halted too , and , seeing that Fabia was interested , he went on to tell her of Mácha 's best known poem , called Maj . |
| 16 | It went on to tell of her relief at getting a job as nanny to the Wingfields , and gave an account of their daily life . |