Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And now , if you 'll excuse me , I 'm going on to the worst problem of the lot — Willis 's financial position … |
| 2 | About the papers in the portmanteau and Molly and how I 'm going on to the monastery next . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm going on to the monastery . |
| 4 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 5 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 6 | If you do it first , you 're gon na really understand what I 'm going on about . |
| 7 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 8 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 9 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 10 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 11 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about dolphins , ’ said the leading lady of the entertainment show Give Us A Clue , ‘ but you just feel that they understand what you are going on about . |
| 13 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , Jannie , ’ he said reasonably , following her back to the kitchen , ‘ just tell me what it is you 're going on about . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what you 're going on about , is n't it , Jannie ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know what you 're going on about . ’ |
| 17 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 18 | We wan na know what you 're going on about ! |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 20 | Well you see it depends how , what go you 're going on to . |
| 21 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 22 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 23 | You said , you were going on about , something about , when they sing oh Garrot Turbo sticker |
| 24 | you were going on about that |
| 25 | what I thought you were going on about . |
| 26 | And I , and you , you were going on about something to do with your job yeah ? |
| 27 | I du n no what she 's going on about , so I do n't say nothing . |
| 28 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 29 | I do n't know what she 's going on about . |
| 30 | Bella appeared to be unperturbed : ‘ I wondered why she was going on about Mr Bishop and Madge just now . |