Example sentences of "[adv] go on [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home .
2 There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately .
3 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
4 It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing
5 It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use .
6 Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order .
7 It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years .
8 I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there .
9 Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’
10 One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others .
11 In Section 7–2 we start with distortions in the factor market , where returns are not equalized in the two sectors of the economy ( for example , because of a union ‘ premium ’ in the corporate sector ) and then go on to a monopoly mark-up pricing policy .
12 He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School .
13 I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand .
14 Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course .
15 She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me .
16 And every time they put themselves forward to go on to a tra on a training course , they 've actually got to think through , and maybe justify to their line manager ,
17 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
18 Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students .
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