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Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it .
2	Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about .
3	There was nothing to go on at all .
4	‘ There 's nothing to go on with .
5	Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel .
6	I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’
7	‘ She hates the way everyone goes on in England .
8	Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order .
9	It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one .
10	Nothing goes on in St Jude 's that I do n't know about — should I choose to enquire . "
11	And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context .
12	" Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions .
13	To find out what tickets are available , how much they cost & c you first ring Ticket Call ( 0891–121680 ) where you pay money through your nostril to hear someone bloater on about competitions and how to enter them before you get the info you rang for .
14	someone going on about how they think you should understand it .
15	For the first time in her life she 'd allowed someone to hook on to her .
16	Someone get on to the police immediately ! ’
17	‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events .
18	So when you , if someone camps on to you , is that what happens , if I take my desk , there 's an unusual amount of ringing and nobody there when I actually pick it up .
19	How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ?
20	All the attacker is offered is a sea of spines , with nothing to grip on to .
21	I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them .
22	Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’
23	She had plenty to get on with meanwhile .
24	‘ It 's a big place and she sometimes sees the prince but there 's certainly nothing going on between them . ’
25	There was nothing going on in the centre of .
26	And he said something which even annoyed them more , which is something like there is nothing going on in Oxford before eleven that I 'm interested in doing .
27	Larkin , in his poem , had paused at the door of a village church to make sure there was nothing going on before modestly venturing in as a tourist .
28	Some of these visitors strolled along the promenade ; a few penetrated to the beach ; none ventured on to the cliffs .
29	Well actually I always think , Win always say that the W I runs itself because everyone gets on with things and they do n't need to be told and , and when it actually comes to it no nobody wants to become president or officer . .
30	Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday .