Example sentences of "[noun] went on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the cooking , eating , living went on under this vaulted ceiling with its skylights , around this central fireplace , on this limestone floor knuckled with the imprints of fossils . |
| 2 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 3 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 4 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 5 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 6 | After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity . |
| 7 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 8 | It must also be said that Herbert Casson 's admiration for youth could outbid even Baden-Powell 's undying romanticism : For page upon page , across three issue of Teacher 's World , Herbert Casson went on like this , at the same unrelenting pace . |
| 9 | A whole lot of serious debating went on about this . |
| 10 | From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers . |
| 11 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 12 | The meeting went on till late in the evening and many found peace with God . |
| 13 | The joke went on after all . |
| 14 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 15 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 16 | There were no windows he could look in ; whatever horrors went on within those wooden walls were kept well secluded from prying eyes . |
| 17 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 18 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's simple really , ’ Jennifer went on at last . |
| 20 | In India , though the first stations appeared in the 1850s , the finest examples came later and the building of lines to the deepest recesses of the subcontinent went on until 1914 . |
| 21 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 22 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 23 | But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev , whom she wed in 1975 . |
| 24 | But despite the death the rowing at Oxford went on as normal today. , with crews competing in the traditional college races . |
| 25 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 26 | Prabhakar went on to 64 , but McDermott worked his way through the tail , finishing with 10 wickets in the match : his final scalp ( Srinath ) was his 150th in Tests . |
| 27 | George was recording ‘ Under Lock And Key ’ , Steve was doing ‘ Eat ‘ Em And Smile ’ in David Lee Roth 's band ( with Billy Sheehan ) , Megadeth were doing ‘ Armored Saint ’ , and the list went on from that . |
| 28 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 29 | But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time . |
| 30 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |