Example sentences of "go on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It goes on for a minute .
2 The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill .
3 As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it .
4 We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet .
5 Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students .
6 I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes .
7 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
8 I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom .
9 ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting .
10 Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy .
11 Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind .
12 Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all .
13 The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period .
14 The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’
15 Some people argue that the INFORMAL ORGANISATION describes what really goes on in an organisation whereas the FORMAL ORGANISATION describes what ought to happen .
16 Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university .
17 THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head .
18 Or , though the process or institution may be , so to speak , on the doorstep , its accessibility may be limited : what goes on inside a defence research establishment or a Masonic Lodge are obvious examples .
19 In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment .
20 I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’
21 I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments .
22 ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide .
23 At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace .
24 It then accepted a new structure in which a minimum standard of English and arithmetic qualified a child to go on to an intelligence test to measure its ‘ capacity ’ .
25 It would be a waste of time for both of you to go on to an interview .
26 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
27 Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so .
28 At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age .
29 And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth .
30 This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another .
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