Example sentences of "[adv] go on [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's enough going on here right now , ’ Ruth told her sharply .
2 This is only going on very quietly
3 Yeah it 's got ta rewind , it 's only going on quietly though
4 It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
5 To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers .
6 He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him .
7 ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’
8 That will not go on much longer .
9 We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times .
10 The same day is still going on out here , a little older , a little wearier .
11 I still could n't hear properly , I realised , unless it was the walls being so thick they kept out even the sound of the storm ; it was still going on out there ; from time to time the cloverleaf aperture lit up steely blue .
12 Life here goes on rather quietly , as you might expect , but we have enjoyed the most marvellous Autumn I think I have ever known .
13 It does seem , however , that normal-weight people know when to stop eating , and fat people simply go on too long .
14 well go on out then , he probably wants to speak to you , Gary
15 Yeah , well go on too long do n't they ?
16 You ca n't go on forever just playing with the children and telling self-deprecating stories about yourself at the Chases ’ dinner parties .
17 I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty
18 ‘ This ca n't go on much longer , ’ the Poles hopefully assured the Germans .
19 We ca n't go on much longer . ’
20 I know it sounds unfeeling but to be blunt we ca n't go on much longer without any money coming in .
21 I just feel it ca n't go on much longer .
22 Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long .
23 At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ .
24 It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’
25 Do n't go on too long about the paper , or you 'll put your foot right in it with Sefton , one way or another .
26 He paused , gave each of them a solemn look across his spectacles and then went on even more deliberately , in his dry old voice .
27 Fenella looked to where he indicated , to the farthest of the treadmills and saw the single creature held captive there , and her heart jumped and missed several beats , and then went on again erratically .
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