Example sentences of "go on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , the molecules involved are so small — remember all those New Testaments fitting on a pin 's head — that they are under constant assault from the ordinary jostling of molecules that goes on due to heat . |
| 2 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 3 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
| 4 | She also wanted to go on first , not last . |
| 5 | Then , just as someone mentioned the band were preparing to go on next door , my luck changed . |
| 6 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 7 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 8 | So I intend to find out exactly what is going on first , before I even consider giving my consent . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , why do n't we see what 's going on first ? ’ |
| 10 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
| 11 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 12 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 13 | He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days . |
| 14 | Gloriously obliv oblivious of what 's going on next door , it could be a huge substructure , deregulation the new in thing . |
| 15 | If I 'd of had bi I 'd have phoned the police and told them there 's something awful going on next door . |
| 16 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 17 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |
| 18 | This is easily the most important leg of the course , where a great deal of place changing can go on due to the huge differences in speed among sailors . |
| 19 | They can go on first sort of warm up band and that 'll put everybody else in context . |
| 20 | Of course the top material 's got ta go on first Joan has n't it ? |
| 21 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 22 | I says , I 'll go next week This was after three weeks , I says , I 'll go on next week and I 'll take over the job of yard foreman , and I 'll do it the way I want it done , not the way that . |
| 23 | I says , So I want to cut the ordeal short , I says , and I 'll go on next week . |
| 24 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 25 | The roof went on first . |
| 26 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 27 | But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed . |
| 28 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 29 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 30 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |