Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] went on [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes .
2 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
3 Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university .
4 They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street .
5 Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes .
6 She picked her way over the scattered things and went on to the balcony .
7 My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care .
8 It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village .
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