Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are responsible for what goes on but quite clearly some have been turning a blind eye . ’ |
| 2 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |
| 3 | ‘ If you know anything about the history of art , you 'll know that the real process of evaluation goes on after things have stopped . |
| 4 | My mind just goes on and on … |
| 5 | It has been both exhilarating and draining and we have to work tomorrow , so we put in our earplugs and pull our sleeping bags over our heads while all around us the talk goes on and on . |
| 6 | I found her infuriating … she goes on and on and is determined to get her own way . ’ |
| 7 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 8 | So the country 's day-to-day spending goes on and its capital investment is cut back . |
| 9 | It goes on and on . |
| 10 | The list goes on and on . |
| 11 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 12 | Spatial boundaries may vary in their openness , the degree to which they permit outsiders to inspect the phenomenon in question , to find out what goes on and to gain thereby a knowledge of it and a competence in dealing with it . |
| 13 | The echo goes on and on and round and round — the cave must be hundreds of feet high . |
| 14 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 15 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 16 | A team functioning with all its different required ministry components in place , resources set up — ie Care Trust families , housegroups that sense God 's call , liaising with statutory organisations — Social Services , Social Security , HIV and AIDS agencies , Housing Department , Drug Dependency units — Police communication and legal systems in place , doctors , a formal prison link … and the list goes on and on as you can imagine . |
| 17 | William Carey had achieved a prodigious amount in many different spheres : evangelism , translation work , social reform , education , co-operation with other Protestant missionaries , botany — the list goes on and on . |
| 18 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 19 | The list goes on and on . |
| 20 | Auckland 's incredible run as holder of the Ranfurly Shield goes on and on . |
| 21 | The Orb 's first tune goes on and on ; a kind of broken , haunting sonata for new technology that builds with enormous subtlety . |
| 22 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 23 | Extraordinary as it may seem , it nevertheless is a fact that plants breathe through their roots , not in the same way as you and I with lungs , but the same chemical process of respiration goes on and , unless like seaweed and water lilies they are adapted to do so , plants can no more live in an airless waterlogged soil than you can live with your head under water . |
| 24 | They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day . |
| 25 | Like a fever dream it goes on and on , until you desperately hope that it can all be achieved at one blow . |
| 26 | Actually , one bloke … he goes on and on about what life 's for . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 28 | The sun goes down , the racing goes on and the keenest fans keep watching . |
| 29 | Yet the war goes on and more arrivals — veterans of the Khmer Rouge , the South Vietnamese army , the Salvadorean death squads — come to replace the lucky few who make enough money to escape the war of Los Angeles . |
| 30 | Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine . |