Example sentences of "he went on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
2 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
3 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
4 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
5 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
6 | He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble . |
7 | I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham . |
8 | ‘ She and the other girl were obviously in league , ’ he went on with savage certainty . |
9 | But he was in a cheerful mood and he went on with another story altogether . |
10 | Aware of the complete control he had over them , and enjoying it , he went on with more deliberation . |
11 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
12 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
13 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
14 | Educated at Uppingham , where he gained a scholarship and won prizes for athletics and literature , he went on in 1870 to Balliol College , Oxford . |
15 | How should he get through his work if he went on in this way ? |
16 | Fabia felt then that if he went on in this ‘ lift her up , knock her down ’ fashion for very much longer , the way her heart was behaving , she would probably have heart failure . |
17 | He went on from that bright start , becoming the youngest to reach 1000 runs in the Ranji Trophy . |
18 | He went on like that ; really he did ! |
19 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
20 | He went on like this for a while , and ended up asking who was going to buy him . |
21 | If he went on like this she was n't even sure she would have enough composure to return to Vienna and resume her church and radio work . |