Example sentences of "to go [adv] [verb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negrín was obliged to go on hoping that the outbreak of a general war would at last bring the democracies to the Republic 's aid : a vain enough hope following the Anglo-Italian Naval Treaty of April 1938 but an even vainer one , as Stalin realized , after Munich . |
| 2 | This meant that , once the prosecution had established the use of force , it had to go on to prove that the victim had ‘ resisted to the utmost from the inception to the close of the attack . ’ |
| 3 | However , this approach may not always be the most successful one because it is so familiar to most of us , and in a competitive situation people are able to go on reasoning until the cows come home . |
| 4 | The decision tree to go through to decide whether the Information memorandum is an investment advertisement or not is set out in detail in Appendix 3 to this section and should be followed in all cases . |
| 5 | Several students told me of their plans to go abroad to live because the party would never release its tight grip over people 's lives . |
| 6 | ‘ Jeez , I could do with that cup of tea , ’ Mrs Bennet said , putting her hands over her ears to shut out the tumult above , and Anne decided to go upstairs to see if the gas was still on . |