Example sentences of "he go on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustus Melmotte , the rich entrepreneur hero of the book , feared his debts would not allow him to go on living anywhere , and killed himself . |
| 2 | He simply wanted him to go on sitting there . |
| 3 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 4 | He wanted his son to be a champion , and he did everything he could to force him to go on racing against his better judgement ! ’ |
| 5 | She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped . |
| 6 | They risk leaving him there and him going on to do damage to personal property . |
| 7 | It seemed pointless to let him go on reproaching himself . |
| 8 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 9 | She looked back at him now , at the handsome , sculpted face , and was aware of a sudden inexplicable urge to let him go on believing that she was married . |
| 10 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 11 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 12 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 13 | Worse , she had been prepared to let him go on using her , had he chosen to do so . |
| 14 | He goes on to explain that he was never a follower of Spinoza ( the seventeenth-century philosopher , who identified God with Nature ) . |
| 15 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 16 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 17 | Paul said have no anxiety about anything , but he did n't stop there , he goes on to explain how to rid our lives of anxiety . |
| 18 | As he goes on to explain : |
| 19 | then he goes on to explain why |
| 20 | But as he goes on to explain , some of the newer council houses were n't much of an improvement . |
| 21 | He goes on to mention that there was also a ‘ brass-work lately erected ’ . |
| 22 | He goes on to mention the occasional embarrassing moments which occur when firms try to pass backhanders . |
| 23 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 24 | O'Neill survived but as he goes on to record : ‘ The Catholic streets in Belfast became and remained a forest of Irish Republican flags for the duration of the celebrations . ’ |
| 25 | He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag . |
| 26 | He goes on to state that the great coat charity is alive and is charged to Holborough Court Estate and was paid until his death by William Lee Esq . |
| 27 | And he goes on to ask some similarly pertinent questions : ‘ To whom does a person 's body belong ? |
| 28 | In the constitution he goes on to elaborate : the hypothec tacitly covered all property received by the heir or trustee from the estate of the deceased ; the action for the hypothec lay for the same amount as the original actio in personam ; it extended only over property received from the estate and not over any personal property of the heir or trustee . |
| 29 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 30 | He goes on to give a splendid example of the thing he has in mind , when an old Muslim tribesman went on urging a drug-addicted English hippy to ‘ pray to Jesus the Messiah ’ , until he was converted and delivered . |