Example sentences of "[was/were] go on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 2 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 3 | But even as preparations were being made to fly them home , talks were going on with independent schools all over England in the hope of finding them free places.Andrew Auster is one of the organizers of the scheme … and he 'll be taking some of the orphans at the Downs School in Colwall : |
| 4 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 5 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 6 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 7 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 8 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 9 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 10 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 11 | The interest shown by so many ninth-century chroniclers , wherever they were based , in what was going on in other parts of that world , and specifically , in what kings did , reflects a persisting reality . |
| 12 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 13 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 14 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 15 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd known what was going on in that house right under my nose … ’ |
| 17 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 18 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |