Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 21 July 1876 , accompanied by his friends Emmanuel Mohn and Knut Lykken , he attacked the mountain up the steep glacier later known as the Slingsbybrae , reaching the col under the final rock pillar ; there the Norwegians refused to go on , considering the peak inaccessible . |
| 2 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 3 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 4 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 5 | Lights began to go on all over Princedale Road . |
| 6 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 7 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 8 | Shastri had gone on , barely noticed , to 50 , when Gooch 's gentle swingers drew Manjrekar into a loose cut and Jack Russell took the catch . |
| 9 | With this and a preliminary draft of the expenditure plans , ministers had to go on arguing until they reach an agreed compromise . |