Example sentences of "he go on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 2 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 6 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 7 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 8 | He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton . |