Example sentences of "go on [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 2 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 3 | Before going on to look at London Jamaican and Black London English in Chapters 4 and 5 , I shall discuss some relevant research and theory relating to Caribbean Creoles in Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | Before going on to look at re-entry and back to nursing courses in detail I would like to consider alternative routes of re-entry available to you first . |
| 5 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 6 | ‘ Did your brother go on living at home ? ’ |
| 7 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 8 | Then he went on gazing at Thérèse , voluptuous in flowered chintz and blue ribbons . |
| 9 | I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole . |
| 10 | Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University . |
| 11 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 12 | He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department . |
| 13 | His BMW went on to race at Le Mans . |
| 14 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 15 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |