Example sentences of "he [vb -s] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 2 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 4 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 5 | I do n't bother to answer him back when he goes on like that . |
| 6 | What if he goes on like this for ever ? |
| 7 | I 'm afraid he 'll get too hot and destroy himself one day , if he goes on like this . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ said Julia with feeling , ‘ if he goes on like this , I should think someone will break his neck . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Of course he goes on like this because he 's jealous , ’ said John , when he and Ianthe were alone . |
| 10 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 11 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 12 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 13 | Poor David Lawrence the ball does seem to follow him around whenever he 's bowling as well he , ease himself back to his position now two more to , he moves on to eleven . |
| 14 | This week , he moves on with similar expertise to The Anger of Comedy , in particular Mel Brooks 's The Producer ( screened straight after his lecture ) and Penny Marshall 's Big . |
| 15 | So he steps on for another mouthful ; and this time does n't jump back . |
| 16 | However , the addition can not be drawn until your husband retires , and if he works on after this age , you will have to wait to receive this pension . |
| 17 | Carroll , whose continuing achilles injury has resulted in Gallagher stepping in as his deputy in recent games , admitted : ‘ Mick was brilliant , and if he carries on like that I might not be able to get my place back . ’ |