Example sentences of "going on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm there 's a certain prestige about erm going on to a school . |
| 2 | There will also be a ‘ menu ’ of six visits from which visitors can choose before going on to a buffet supper with members of the Faculty . |
| 3 | After eating a full breakfast , he performed his awesome feat of batting before , in the evening , taking part in a doubles tennis match , visiting the theatre and going on to a supper party ! |
| 4 | The President 's choice to succeed Mr Frohnmayer must be confirmed by the Subcommittee on Education , Arts and the Humanities , then pass a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources , before going on to a Senate vote . |
| 5 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 6 | Ideologically the Party was committed to creating a " working class united front " before going on to an alliance on the French or Spanish models . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 8 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 9 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 10 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 11 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 12 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 14 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 15 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 16 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 17 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 18 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 20 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 21 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 22 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 23 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 24 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 25 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 26 | So sorting out what is going on in an ERP is like untangling a complex bundle of many different strands of similar wool with one hand tied behind the back . |
| 27 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |
| 28 | She saw what was going on from a school bus . |
| 29 | Are n't you going on from a mistake ? |
| 30 | The old ways of going on within a discipline may , from time to time , become inadequate ; but finding new ways forward is not totally without direction . |