Example sentences of "he [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sell the house or whatever but er there 's this pal of mine and er he 's going on for , for ten years , |
| 2 | He 's going on to New York , and promises to post this for me . |
| 3 | I I The one he 's going on to that I ca n't go , it 's the third week in July . |
| 4 | Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place . |
| 5 | I du n no what he 's going on about , so I just look at him . |
| 6 | He 's going on about the beach ! |
| 7 | I keep burning , I bet I did n't , I thought , pardon me , positive mm I popped round , I went in yesterday I 'm going to say something and then he 's going on about well I 've sold me car to pay the mortgage and |
| 8 | Yeah , and I said he said something about going to the pictures so he 's going on about it . |
| 9 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 10 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |
| 11 | He 's going on about it , even like , he told me that when he dreamt it , |
| 12 | I could n't really understand what he was going on about , and I did n't like the way he shook my hand so blummin hard . |
| 13 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 14 | And maybe I should try that Basie trio he was going on about . |
| 15 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 16 | ‘ He was going on about fighting the war and how there should be no place here for ‘ Pakis ’ , how they should go home , ’ said Safina . |
| 17 | And then he was going on about how he was gon na get into it and then he , I told him what , it did n't come out or something . |
| 18 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 19 | You know that stuff he was going on about for special like continuous pressure and all that sort of crap . |
| 20 | But then , he was going on to be a suffragan bishop in East Anglia and his sorrow and his support would go with him . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , I used to think he skived off and all the time he was going on to Conway House to work . |