Example sentences of "[pron] go on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 2 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 3 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 4 | ‘ I go on quietly , there 's no mystery and no problem , I 'm a quiet peaceful person . |
| 5 | I go on much too long . |
| 6 | I go on there see . |
| 7 | How can I go on tomorrow ? |
| 8 | Can I go on there ? |
| 9 | Can I go on there ? |
| 10 | Can I go on there ? |
| 11 | Can I go on there ? |
| 12 | Erm , can I go on now , to erm . |
| 13 | Er er shall I go on now ? |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll need long johns , ’ I went on gleefully , ‘ and thermal underwear and layers of greasy-wool sweaters and good oilies and a woolly hat and a towelling scarf to stop the seas slopping down your neck and good sea-boots and as many pairs of gloves as you can find , because gloves never stay dry and — ‘ |
| 15 | and I , I 've felt at that time and since I went on too early . |
| 16 | Pleased , I went on quickly : |
| 17 | ‘ But , ’ I went on quickly , ‘ very soon after this , he turned up outside our house at 24 Stranraer Gardens ! ’ |
| 18 | Dr Livesey was not at his house but with the squire at his home , so Captain Dance and I went on there . |
| 19 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 20 | Felt guilty as hell the first time I went on there ! |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me , ’ I went on gently , ‘ if a man has entered a horse for the Derby from , shall we say , Texas or California or Kansas , or anywhere where horses are bred , and having won the Derby arrives to be presented with something , do you think he will be pleased to get a voucher on the Royal Insurance Company instead of the Cup ? ’ |
| 22 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 23 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 24 | After predictably brash , bright and breezy powerpop run-throughs of ‘ Bill ’ and ‘ Pumpkin ’ , Seaweed deliver a stupid , sexy and slyly squiggly head-screwing dubversh of ‘ Squint ’ , which goes on far , far too long unless one is savagely drugged . |
| 25 | But what I do think occurs , and this is bourne out er in my own case , I mean I 'm extremely reluctant to go into my staffroom simply because of the amount of smoking which goes on there . |
| 26 | Then they went on to Bridlington , Canterbury and ‘ divers places of religion ’ , where Margery was often in trouble because of her noisy weeping , which went on nearly all day , ‘ both forenoon and afternoon also ’ . |
| 27 | Then of course there were the social occasions and Dave threw a truly memorable ceilidh at his house before we left , which went on well into the wee small hours . |
| 28 | The essential quality of the world was its transitoriness vis-à-vis God , not the visible change which went on unceasingly in the world . ’ |
| 29 | Another hotly contested tournament was the Copa de Republic , a vast knock-out competition which went on all over the country from November to April . |
| 30 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |