Example sentences of "going on [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
2 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
3 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
4 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
5 | The process has been going on for some time . |
6 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
7 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
8 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
9 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
10 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
11 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
12 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
13 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
14 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
15 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
16 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
17 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |