Example sentences of "going on [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 4 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 5 | ‘ Danny will be going on about the fair all night now , ’ said David as the bus disappeared through the factory gates , then as they turned away he asked , ‘ Are you on duty tomorrow ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 8 | The traditional " absent mindedness " of a professor represents a concentration on some subject removed from the daily life going on around the poor old man . |