Example sentences of "he [verb] on in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) .
2	Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ?
3	He went on in a similar vein .
4	‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’
5	‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late .
6	‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone .
7	‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’
8	‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’
9	‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner .
10	‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice .
11	However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced .
12	He ran on in the latter stages , but never looked likely to justify heavy support in the betting market .

  Next page