Example sentences of "on [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points .
2 We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress .
3 What 's more , he 'll go on improving for some time because he was a late starter at 24 and he is still developing . ’
4 It went on to prognosticate with some insight but little charity about his political future .
5 Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided .
6 In a short series of talks entitled Let the Figures Speak , I meditated on the Three Gems , the Four Truths , the Five Great Precepts , the Eightfold Path , and then went on to deal with some of the statistics of Burmese life — birth figures , infant mortality , crime figures , etc .
7 But he admitted : ‘ I believe that unemployment will go on rising for some time yet , but what is certain is that the measures I have taken will assist the employment situation . ’
8 ‘ Providing I stay fit I will get the record because I plan to keep on playing for some time yet .
9 I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers .
10 He says that he 's only had two letters of objection and adds that he wonders how long he has to carry on to prove to some people that the crematorium is not an environmental hazard .
11 Yet in the tragedies these villains are never satisfied : Macbeth goes on killing like some automaton , Iago goes on destroying until he has brought everyone down .
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