Example sentences of "[noun] go on [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that piece goes on there somewhere , is that a piece of his nose ? |
| 2 | That 's what I 'd like to know cos there 's a lot of confusion going on out there . |
| 3 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 4 | ‘ The council goes on too long , ’ he said . |
| 5 | There 's no dancing going on up there . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ There is real suffering going on right now and we have to do what we can to alleviate it … to make sure people do n't starve . ’ |
| 7 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 8 | I mean you had noticed there 's a hurricane going on out here ? ’ |
| 9 | I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move . |
| 10 | ‘ There were a lot of things going on out there . |
| 11 | However , things went on very well at after that . |
| 12 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 13 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 14 | Indeed , there is a lot going on out there in my garden , which I do not understand . |
| 15 | There 's a lot going on out there , and we do n't have anywhere near enough space to put everything in that we 'd like , so busy is what it is . |
| 16 | Why , there was a positive orgy going on out there , in her respectable garden ! |
| 17 | Emigration to the colony went on happily enough in the 1630s . |
| 18 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 19 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 20 | In the end the show went on far longer than we expected and was fairly raunchy . |
| 21 | I like the fact that we sold enough records to go on there even if the event was a little embarrassing . ’ |
| 22 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 23 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 24 | You must n't let these conversations go on too long . |