Example sentences of "he [vb -s] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 2 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 3 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 4 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 5 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 6 | This week , he moves on with similar expertise to The Anger of Comedy , in particular Mel Brooks 's The Producer ( screened straight after his lecture ) and Penny Marshall 's Big . |
| 7 | So he steps on for another mouthful ; and this time does n't jump back . |
| 8 | However , the addition can not be drawn until your husband retires , and if he works on after this age , you will have to wait to receive this pension . |