Example sentences of "go on [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel . |
| 2 | What goes on in Ludo 's brain ? |
| 3 | You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’ |
| 4 | And second because she knows what goes on in Audrey 's seemingly empty head . |
| 5 | Here they are — their words , their faces , but what , oh what , goes on behind people 's skulls ? |
| 6 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 7 | A light seems to go on in Lucker 's head . |
| 8 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 9 | Will he say that he knew what was going on at Luigi 's ? |
| 10 | He could have said , ’ Yes , I knew what was going on at Luigi 's restaurant . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd been hearing things , Denis had said , and he wanted to know what was going on at Rafferty 's . |
| 12 | Tell me , did the great galactic public ever find out what was going on on Checkley 's World ? ’ |
| 13 | Therese , conscious , as was everyone else , of a row of gargantuan proportions going on in Gesner 's dressing room , was blithely uncaring . |
| 14 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 15 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 16 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 17 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 18 | But this suggests simply that a kind of unconscious holding operation is going on among psychology 's more powerful subjects . |
| 19 | No one understood what was going on inside Ramanujan 's . |
| 20 | But what was going on inside Jennifer 's mind ? |
| 21 | The accelerators wo n't go on to Sun 's price lists and there is no money changing hands in the relationship apart from some joint marketing and advertising of which Sun will bear the brunt . |
| 22 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club . |
| 24 | He was a King 's scholar at Eton College ( 1866–71 ) and went on to King 's College , Cambridge , where he was a Browne 's medallist ( Greek epigrams ) in 1874 and gained a first in the classical tripos in 1875 . |
| 25 | Bowyer received his BA at Oxford in 1579 , and went on to Clifford 's Inn , and in 1580 to the Middle Temple . |
| 26 | The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port . |
| 27 | An umpire told me : ‘ What 's happened to Don was no reflection on his unswerving attempt to get the truth told over everything that went on at Lord 's . |
| 28 | Now Allan Lamb 's revelations must make the ICC stage a full-scale investigation into what really went on at Lord 's last Sunday morning . |
| 29 | Mr Healey here went on about Labour 's success in the Euro-elections ; I said it was just mid-term and all that ; and he said , With respect , no . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew about the affair before he did , ’ Faye went on over Belinda 's murmured comment . |