Example sentences of "[verb] go on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says er , I want to go on as yard foreman next week . |
| 2 | The case continues tomorrow and is expected to go on until Monday . |
| 3 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 4 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 5 | and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together |
| 6 | If there is a partial response to this diet , then it is a positive sign , and you should consider going on to Step 4 . |
| 7 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 8 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 9 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 10 | He is to star in Death Wish Five and plans to go on to Death Wish Six and Seven . |
| 11 | We have signed a treaty to agree to that , but we have not just retained Polaris , with its enormous fire-power ; we have now decided to go on to Trident that has even greater firepower than Polaris . |
| 12 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 13 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 14 | Oh stop going on about rubbish . |
| 15 | Er because I do n't have a group of accountants in front of me I 'm not going to go on about debits and credits and so on and so forth . |
| 16 | For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc . |
| 17 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 18 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 19 | I wish they 'd stop going on about Christmas for heaven 's sake , . |
| 20 | A light seems to go on in Lucker 's head . |
| 21 | And then you just do a run , you do n't have to go on to print it at all you just print it off . |
| 22 | We decided to go on to Mallawi by train . |
| 23 | With a career in speech therapy behind her , Liz decided to go on to study for a post-graduate degree in Marine Archaeology at St Andrews University , where her husband David is Professor of Chemistry . |
| 24 | Desmond Fairchild flatly refused to go on in St Ives 's place , with or without the book . |
| 25 | Yes , he was , because , after that , he started going on about nights of love . |
| 26 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 27 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 28 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 29 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 30 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |