Example sentences of "[pron] go on [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 2 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 3 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 4 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 5 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 6 | Having said this , I go on to welcome the show . |
| 7 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 8 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 9 | I went on to join the Kent team and later the National Display Team . |
| 10 | I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality . |
| 11 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 12 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 13 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 14 | I went on to say ‘ it would be the exact opposite . ’ |
| 15 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 16 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 17 | With two of my first graduate students to work on the chick , I went on to explore some of the more detailed biochemistry of these changes . |
| 18 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 19 | So , having no more to discuss on that topic , I went on to ask Sylvia if she could think of a place in her own home where she felt uneasy if the door was shut . |
| 20 | Still pleased as punch from selling an exploding lager can , I went on to boost sales of an elephant 's trunk nose design and a Woody Allen mask but I did n't ask what the young man wanted THAT for . |
| 21 | From 1980 onwards I went on to become involved in the Black Workers ' Group , unions — NALGO and ACTTS — and more recently , the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group in our workplace . |
| 22 | Flushed with success , I went on to change a wash basin , a sink , and fitted a washing machine ! , |
| 23 | I went on to tell her about Wilson , Connie Fraser and Vecchi , or most of it . |
| 24 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 25 | John Lyons , for instance , while complaining that ‘ much linguistic theorising is vitiated by the uncritical transference by linguists and philosophers of attitudes which derive from the cultural peculiarities of English and a few other so-called world languages ’ ( 1982 ) , himself goes on to rest part of his view of literacy , implicitly , on exactly such ‘ cultural peculiarities ’ of written English . |
| 26 | This is from one of the letters written by Shelley in Italy , which goes on to describe the painting of St Cecilia by Raphael : |
| 27 | The breadth of this review , which goes on to discuss Sir Thomas Elyot 's The Governour and to conclude by looking at immediate reforms applicable in a modern world of ‘ industrial exploitation … ’ where ‘ local community does not exist ’ relates clearly to ‘ East Coker ’ . |
| 28 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 29 | The Head of Department said that he was concerned that the recommendations for action by the Senior Management Team would be overlooked as a result of their going on to review the Maths department , ‘ which has 15 teachers ’ . |
| 30 | JUST last week , General Manuel Noriega , already the supreme ruler of Panama , had himself named head of government and ‘ maximum leader for national liberation ’ by his personally appointed legislature , which went on to pronounce the country to be in a ‘ state of war ’ with the United States . |