Example sentences of "go on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 2 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 3 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 4 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 5 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 6 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 7 | But for some reason Alice would not go on with that thought . |
| 8 | The other Andeans say they will go on with free trade without Ecuador , if need be . |
| 9 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 10 | In the end I told him , ‘ I ca n't go on with this marriage . |
| 11 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 12 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
| 13 | I ca n't go on with these people . |
| 14 | We 'll go on with routine procedure for now . ’ |
| 15 | Which answer will help us most to ensure that life can go on on this planet ? |
| 16 | Fortunately , the majority warm to it and do go on to fulfilled fatherhood . |
| 17 | Spend the immediate post-Smiths period saying how he was the talented one and would go on to great things . |
| 18 | Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 19 | But of course Robert was right and the rider did go on to greater things . |
| 20 | And since the central figure in all this was Vincent d'Indy , I shall go on to present evidence that appears to explain his motives both in ‘ improving ’ Rameau and in concealing what he had done . |
| 21 | But since we are in agreement , let's go on to other things . |
| 22 | ‘ Kelly believed she , too , would go on to other things that God planned for her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Kelly believed she too would go on to other things God had got planned for her . ’ |
| 24 | That 's the sort of the general trend erm and from there we can go on to other things . |
| 25 | This mortality risk is much lower for chronic stable angina but a similar number of patients in both groups will go on to coronary artery bypass surgery . |
| 26 | Let's go on to another subject which is another subject we 'll be dealing with today . |
| 27 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 28 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 29 | If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins . |
| 30 | In particular the block examination at 16+ appears to have lost its justification , when almost all 16-year-olds will go on to further education of some sort , whether in a sixth form or elsewhere . |