Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] go [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 2 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 3 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 4 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 5 | Why in in that case do you think that Sir Nicholas and he he he 's not stupid , I mean he 's a career politician , he 's come out and said this his wife has said that they 're both smiling on the front page of the newspaper at the moment and they go on to say it 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind . |
| 6 | He quoted from the life of Carey and Prayer call of Fuller in 1784 where he says , ‘ Let the whole interest of the Redeemer be affectionately remembered ’ , and he went on to say we are called to WORK not a holiday . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not quite sure , ’ the writer said , ‘ why these American officers were in the Catalinas ’ , and he went on to say that if they did play a valuable part in the operation , the Admiralty might care to recognize their services . |
| 8 | ’ This was the ‘ first attempt to land a fish ’ and he went on to say that he awaited the reply with interest . |
| 9 | But he goes on to say : ‘ To take ( the book ) as the last word would be as unwise as putting one 's faith in a hand-out from the ( US ) Department of the Interior . ’ |
| 10 | ( Hewitt 1989 : 138 ) But he goes on to say : while such Creole influences may have been more evident and highly focused ( Le Page 1975 ) in the speech of black youngsters , they were by no means restricted to black speakers but were to varying degrees evident also in the speech of white and ethnic minority youth other than Afro-Caribbean from the same localities . |
| 11 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman was , of course , absolutely right ; but he went on to say : ’ We ought to wait and see if this convergence happens ’ . |
| 13 | Richard Baxter recorded no details because he goes on to say , ‘ wise friends , by whom I am advised , think it better to omit such personal particularities , at least at this time ’ . |
| 14 | The reason why he introduced these ideas at this point in his discourse was to bring out the similarities and differences between Soviet problems and those pertaining to capitalism , since he went on to say : |
| 15 | She helped me dress in my new going-away outfit before I went down to say goodbye to my parents . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 17 | Yet as he went on to say , the procedure , whatever its eventual remedial consequences , had ‘ punitive consequences ’ . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , as he went on to say , " my friends at Tribschen assure me that , to their amazement , I have succeeded in this even where the problem is at its most extreme , with Tristan … |
| 19 | The identity between Jesus and the Spirit could scarcely be more strongly stressed , particularly as he goes on to say , ‘ I will not leave you orphans : I will come to you ’ ( 14:18 ) . |