Example sentences of "go on at some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof .
2 It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it .
3 He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe .
4 He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari .
5 He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living .
6 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
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