Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 2 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 3 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 4 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 5 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 6 | How did you get on at that wedding ? |
| 7 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 8 | If we carry on at that rate , and growth is actually accelerating , we will be the largest private motor insurer in two years . |
| 9 | Approximately we a we start on at six o'clock . |
| 10 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 11 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 14 | How many p people d di did he take on at that time then , when he first took over ? |
| 15 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 16 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 17 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 18 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 19 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 20 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 21 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 22 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 23 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |
| 24 | No extended lines of credit , no invoicing thirty days later and all designed to be quick in-and-out operations before the tax man or the VAT man has twigged there 's anything going on at all . |