Example sentences of "[modal v] go on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If the music should go on past 10 o'clock for even a minute or two , Muriel is out and about .
2 Yeah , your worships I understand that the the prosecution are are making application I do n't that you should go on with this .
3 We 'll go on with routine procedure for now . ’
4 It can either be fixed or it can be mobile , we 'll go on to that , I 've actually drawn you four pictures , not very good pictures
5 Getting data across We 'll go on to another another way of getting data across from one file to another is with a special type of formula .
6 If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins .
7 ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station .
8 ‘ He 's in the Monday morning conference with the dealers and that 'll go on till nine , then he 's got a policeman waiting to see him .
9 And if there was a town council meeting it might go on till ten o'clock .
10 One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state .
11 For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ .
12 Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 .
13 Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven .
14 The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years .
15 I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters .
16 I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances .
17 So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none .
18 Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't .
19 Masklin knew that they could go on like this for hours .
20 No doubt we could go on like this
21 Wellingtons and shorts , and we used to pour all this molasses and then tread it in , and we 'd go on treading it in until the next load came in , see , we could go on like this all day .
22 And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe .
23 He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years .
24 An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time .
25 ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated .
26 It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them
27 But since we are in agreement , let's go on to other things .
28 Let's go on to another subject which is another subject we 'll be dealing with today .
29 For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ .
30 And since the central figure in all this was Vincent d'Indy , I shall go on to present evidence that appears to explain his motives both in ‘ improving ’ Rameau and in concealing what he had done .
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