Example sentences of "went on like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it went on like that … |
| 2 | It went on like that , the three of us never quite living together , never wholly apart . |
| 3 | He went on like that ; really he did ! |
| 4 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 5 | It went on like that all the way out of Lima , Ward 's voice sometimes hard and accusing , sometimes dangerously quiet , and the Indian mumbling his replies , and sometimes answering in his own tongue . |
| 6 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 7 | It must also be said that Herbert Casson 's admiration for youth could outbid even Baden-Powell 's undying romanticism : For page upon page , across three issue of Teacher 's World , Herbert Casson went on like this , at the same unrelenting pace . |
| 8 | He went on like this for a while , and ended up asking who was going to buy him . |
| 9 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 10 | If she went on like this then she was going to have trouble when she got back to London . |
| 11 | 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 . |