Example sentences of "[vb past] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , he was , because , after that , he started going on about nights of love . |
| 4 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 5 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 7 | Then he started on he started tutting , the old , I jus sa I just carried on working , I just slammed the Citreon on cranked that up and er he started going on about oh this is the price and everything . |
| 8 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 9 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 10 | He kept going on about being aligned and interfacing . |
| 11 | Bez got all upset and started muttering and picking at his scabs and Shaun Ryder kept going on about how it was Bez did n't like to see men cows doing it and he was n't going to apologies for it . |
| 12 | She kept going on about ‘ confidential sources ’ . |
| 13 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 14 | Auntie Jane kept going on about the violence . |
| 15 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 16 | were they not rebelling against this sort of commercialization that they saw going on in erm and think that well if we can , you know , if we can somehow stop this commercialization perhaps then er , then |
| 17 | The early sociologists were greatly influenced by the changes in patterns of life which they saw going on around them as industrialisation proceeded , and they were often deeply disturbed by what they saw . |
| 18 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |