Example sentences of "[verb] on at some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 2 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 3 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 4 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 5 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 6 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 7 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 8 | I reckon Wright will come on at some stage unless England are actually winning . |
| 9 | In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant . |
| 10 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 11 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 12 | As for the future , well , I suppose I 'll have to move on at some time but for the moment I 'm quite happy at the theatre . |