Example sentences of "go on [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 2 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 3 | The weighing , recording and allocation of prizes goes on until about 4pm , when the winning berries go on display until 7.30pm . |
| 4 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 5 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 6 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 7 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 8 | This one seems to have been going on for far too long ! |
| 9 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 10 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 11 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 12 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 13 | She said , ‘ Well , it wo n't be going on for much longer . |
| 14 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 15 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Seems like there is something special going on over there tonight , Taff . |
| 17 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 18 | It 'll go on for much longer . |
| 19 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 20 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 21 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
| 22 | As that generation went on to personally more attractive or socially more distinguished occupations , the assembly lines there reached out to more distant refugees from poor farming and mining areas and to the erstwhile sharecroppers and other deprived rural workers of the Deep South . |
| 23 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 24 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 25 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 26 | Broadly speaking , sound was good but Mr Ponor felt the sound of the carriage at the beginning was a little distracting and went on for too long . |
| 27 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 28 | Anna 's affair went on for much longer and she became so dependent on it that there was no way she could go back . |
| 29 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 30 | No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique , in that all these reactions go on by simply automatically heating and cooling without ever opening the reaction tube . |