Example sentences of "go on [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 2 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah , try those for and er , I mean there , but there , they 'll go on to a similar any way , but just keeping up the enjoyment side and er |
| 4 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 5 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 6 | The line went on into a big Jamaican area , and I was the only white left in a full carriage . |
| 7 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 8 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |