Example sentences of "[vb -s] go on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 3 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 4 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 5 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 6 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 7 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 8 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |
| 9 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |