Example sentences of "he go [adv] to tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | He went on to tell them about the school . |
| 3 | Instead he went on to tell them that the shortest time they kept pupils was for two years but that usually they tried to move people back into mainstream at the time for transfer to middle/upper school . |
| 4 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 5 | And he went on to tell me admiringly how in the Arab quarter the police-men walk in pairs . |
| 6 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 7 | He went on to tell Sadat that the US ambassador kept looking at his watch at the airport , 'saying that every minute I delayed was not in , my interest nor in the interest of Iran . " |
| 8 | He went on to tell his uncle about Stella , and Lucy 's willingness to assist with the next day 's barbecue for the rafting party . |
| 9 | My appointments and everything I 'd got before I came along and erm he went on to tell me , if company . |
| 10 | Ven halted too , and , seeing that Fabia was interested , he went on to tell her of Mácha 's best known poem , called Maj . |