Example sentences of "go on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So , so I think that , and that goes on here . |
| 32 | Just that the path now goes on beyond . ’ |
| 33 | Progressive ‘ improvement ’ of the kind suggested by the arms-race image does go on , even if it goes on spasmodically and interruptedly ; even if its net rate of progress is too slow to be detected within the lifetime of a man , or even within the timespan of recorded history . |
| 34 | The war still goes on downstairs , does n't it ? |
| 35 | In this context , what goes on outside , what is actually written by poets and novelists , is of minor interest . |
| 36 | The work goes on again , I see , now that the — holiday — is over . |
| 37 | and then it starts off , and then it goes on again without winding it back on . |
| 38 | it goes on again . |
| 39 | Life goes on however , and the band have this week announced a series of Scottish dates . |
| 40 | Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow . |
| 41 | Will the public mind if she does n't appear and John Inman goes on instead ? |
| 42 | There was some truth in this but I expect the practice still goes on today . |
| 43 | The Melbourn class started in 1960 by Jean Moss goes on today , now taken by Rosemary Smith , but keeping their memories of Medau tunics . |
| 44 | It goes on today , tomorrow and Saturday at the Ulster Museum , Belfast . |
| 45 | Strikingly , even as the newly-qualified trained infantrymen relax outside the NAAFI with their visitors , the process of coaching other recruits to that goal goes on relentlessly around them . |
| 46 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 47 | Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit . |
| 48 | You see , Ludens , if one goes on far enough the thing collapses under its own weight . ’ |
| 49 | After predictably brash , bright and breezy powerpop run-throughs of ‘ Bill ’ and ‘ Pumpkin ’ , Seaweed deliver a stupid , sexy and slyly squiggly head-screwing dubversh of ‘ Squint ’ , which goes on far , far too long unless one is savagely drugged . |
| 50 | Bootlegging 's still happening now , it still goes on now , and it still causes the music industry lots to lose , lots and lots of money , lots and lots of money . |
| 51 | ‘ So what goes on now ? |
| 52 | It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment . |
| 53 | Life goes on tediously , nothing happens for months , and then one day everything , and I mean everything , goes fucking wild and berserk . |
| 54 | Erm it goes on continually and these poor girls are oh you 're fat ! |
| 55 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 56 | While the banks and bond holders battle it out , the reorganisation of the company into two divisions , betting and pub retailing , goes on apace . |
| 57 | The old pattern of streets and houses is still just visible but it is being rapidly engulfed by the ubiquitous housing estates and ‘ infill ’ as the drive for ‘ a home in the country ’ goes on apace . |
| 58 | The LEA acts as the landlord responsible for capital expenditure , as represented by the school building and major structural work , while the school is responsible as the tenant for everything that goes on inside . |
| 59 | Whatever goes on inside , outside this man says the caution is n't a deterrent . |
| 60 | What you do is , you look at the environment and consider like the inputs and then you look at behaviour as outputs and you learn the relationship between the two and you do n't neces you do n't have to understand what goes on inside . |