Example sentences of "[be] go on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 2 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 3 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 4 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 5 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 6 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 7 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 8 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 9 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 10 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 11 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 12 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 13 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 14 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 15 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 16 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 17 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 18 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 19 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 21 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 22 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 23 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 24 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 25 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 26 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 27 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 29 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 30 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |