Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] gone on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it stands so far , the arms-race idea seems to suggest that cheetahs and gazelles should have gone on , generation after generation , getting ever faster until both travelled faster than sound . |
| 2 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 3 | Leeds should have gone on to pile up a big score but after Wallace had seen a close-range shot blocked by Coton and Gary McAllister 's lob was cleared off the line by Kernaghan , the tide turned . |
| 4 | i it should have gone on |
| 5 | The , the fro the top cover should have gone on first should it ? |
| 6 | I said to dad we should have gone on Tues , Wednesday . |
| 7 | ‘ When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence . |
| 8 | One can tell from his present ability that he 's right to be sorry , he might have gone on to be a famous international . |
| 9 | She might have gone on listening forever , but for her rage , which was the legend she trailed . |
| 10 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 11 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 12 | The weird anomalies of the Burgess shale could have gone on to found evolutionary dynasties while the distant forebears of humanity perished in the ooze . |
| 13 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 14 | We were all surprised when it happened , we could have gone on supporting her ’ . |
| 15 | AB : The achievement of his later works is staggering , of course , but he could have gone on and developed who knows where . |
| 16 | He could have gone on , recklessly , but he was unwilling to reach a consummation where she shared any abandon with him ; he had not forgiven her . |
| 17 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 18 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |
| 19 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 20 | He could have gone on , reminding her of his own incredible bargaining skill , and revealing his knowledge of certain holdings still owned by the company , though truth to tell they were neither large nor especially lucrative . |
| 21 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 22 | If only it had left us alone , we could have been happy , we could have gone on being happy . |
| 23 | Then I could have gone on to explain why it was a duiker no more . |
| 24 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 25 | She did n't think she could have gone on handling this by herself , not on top of everything else that had happened . |
| 26 | ‘ I could have gone on scoring all night , oh yeah , you do n't get tired . |
| 27 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 28 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 29 | Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered . |
| 30 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |