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

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1 " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor .
2 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
3 The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools .
4 However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment .
5 The first view is probably more common among natural scientists and technologists and the second among social scientists , but this is not always the case , and the debate goes on within disciplines as well as between them .
6 Arriving at Halling he was warned not to go on to Rochester as there was danger of his being captured on the road .
7 The following day he ruled out , however , the idea of Baker going on to Baghdad as suggested by Iraq , apparently because of his belief that a series of meetings would only serve as a pretext for Iraq to delay any withdrawal from Kuwait .
8 So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings
9 ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’
10 ‘ I 'm sure there must be more interesting things going on in Ireland than just the bands , ’ he says dismissively .
11 He 'd been about to call him and find out what was going on in Brooklyn when he 'd heard the voice and the rapping on the door .
12 North was slicing bread to make toast , the mechanics of their everyday life going on round Dawson as he stood there .
13 erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation .
14 It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth …
15 But Wordsworth and his sister , after arriving at Brunswick , went on to Goslar because the local coach happened to go there .
16 The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since .
17 Both were well loaded to Machynlleth , but the bulk of the passengers at this time of year are headed for Aberystwyth and on the Tuesday I was surprised to see a lightly loaded train consisting of two 156 units go on to Pwllheli while the crowd on Machynlleth had to get into a 153 .
18 Nearly all the undesirable changes that go on in food after it is harvested make it less pleasant , or decidedly horrible , to eat .
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