Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Carpet cleaning needs no chemicals ; handle fits on to heat shield , and steam hose clips on to this |
2 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |
3 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
4 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
5 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
6 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
7 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
8 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
9 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
10 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
11 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
12 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
13 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
14 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
15 | One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight . |
16 | This paper that set out the excuse me , the paper set out the details of the I T capital code goes on to ninety-four , five . |
17 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
18 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
19 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
20 | she goes on about all this but they do n't say how much it 's gon na cost , never mind the storage heaters |
21 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
22 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
23 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
24 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
25 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
26 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
27 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
28 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
29 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
30 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |