Example sentences of "[noun pl] go on " in BNC.

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1 At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house .
2 That was what made men go on drinking , Huy supposed .
3 For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion .
4 He let the others go on , sat down on a kitchen stool and took it out of his pocket .
5 You must n't let these conversations go on too long .
6 One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production .
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