Example sentences of "[verb] on like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 3 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 4 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 5 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 6 | I do n't bother to answer him back when he goes on like that . |
| 7 | Dad goes on like that , especially when his secretary 's off with a nervous breakdown again . |
| 8 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 9 | What if he goes on like this for ever ? |
| 10 | I 'm afraid he 'll get too hot and destroy himself one day , if he goes on like this . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said Julia with feeling , ‘ if he goes on like this , I should think someone will break his neck . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course he goes on like this because he 's jealous , ’ said John , when he and Ianthe were alone . |
| 13 | On March 1st a French listening post overheard a German remark on the telephone : ‘ if it goes on like this we sha n't have a man left after the war ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought Mum was much too old to carry on like that . ’ |
| 15 | Well he 's going to carry on like that is n't he ? |
| 16 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 17 | ‘ Why does he always have to go on like that ? ’ |
| 18 | but I ca n't afford to go on like that you see |
| 19 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 20 | ‘ How much longer are you going to go on like this ? ’ |
| 21 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 22 | We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs . |
| 23 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 24 | If the boy carried on like that , he 'd scare off everything : the birds , the fish , the lot . |
| 25 | His insistence on sexual matters could not be merely attributable to his calling , since not all doctors carried on like that . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd no idea you carried on like this . |
| 27 | Rafiq was doing a lot of waving into the darkness , as if he expected something to appear — a deputation from the Noise Abatement Society , thought Robert , if they all carried on like this for much longer . |
| 28 | It was a special feeling to score , and hopefully I can carry on like that . ’ |
| 29 | She would bet her last pound that her Terry did n't carry on like that . |
| 30 | ‘ Even in Libya they do n't carry on like that , ’ he had said . |