Example sentences of "[modal v] go on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 2 | ‘ He seemed to think the meeting might go on for a while . ’ |
| 3 | That would be one less thing for him to worry about with regards to his mother , for she would still be mistress of the house , at least until the war was over , which might go on for a year , perhaps two . |
| 4 | Then we could go on to a dance in our local Labour Hall ? |
| 5 | ‘ We could go on to a nightclub afterwards . ’ |
| 6 | It may stop after one or two drinks or it may go on into a spree . |
| 7 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 8 | Rufus had always heard that nothing can go on in a village without the gossips knowing . |
| 9 | This is just one kind of learning which can go on inside a robot 's workings . |