Example sentences of "[noun] went on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 2 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 3 | This research went on throughout the Eighties , attracting huge investment . |
| 4 | ‘ You told me , Hugh , what the priest 's man of Upton said , how he parted from Aldhelm at Preston , while Aldhelm went on to the ferry . ’ |
| 5 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 6 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 7 | Rachaela went on down the stairs , stowing the piece of junk mail in her bag . |
| 8 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 9 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 10 | Benny went on down the street , past the empty shop which people said that a real Italian from Italy was going to open up . |
| 11 | Work went on over the Summer Holiday of 1980 to ensure that the Convent buildings would be ready for the new term , when there would be girls in both the Sixth Form and the First Form . |
| 12 | Work went on through the night to scatter wood chippings , straw and stone on top of the mud , but traders say it 's too little , too late . |
| 13 | Gray went on with the others meantime ; his lands lay in Angus , north of Tay . |
| 14 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 15 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 16 | Celebrations went on into the morning and Paul and Fiona , along with many of their friends , stayed on in Jersey for a week 's holiday , before flying to Greece for their honeymoon . |
| 17 | A great deal of subsistence farming went on among the peasants . |
| 18 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 19 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 20 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 21 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 22 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 23 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 24 | When they reached the yard , Emily went on into the house while Mungo watched Jos and Stanley change a wheel on the old blue van . |
| 25 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
| 26 | Bissett went on down the corridor and unlocked the door to his room . |
| 27 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 28 | At once Frau Nordern went on to the attack . |
| 29 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 30 | You went in to get the package while Ibrahim went on to the river — was that it ? ’ |