Example sentences of "going on [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | But it 's no good going on to that until you 're really pretty good at this then you should be able to follow what 's going on here . |
2 | CodeMasters have a habit of producing great games with the stars going on to bigger and better things ( look at Dizzy , CJ and Seymour ) . |
3 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
4 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
5 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
6 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
7 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
8 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
9 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
10 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
11 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
12 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |