Example sentences of "not go on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving at Halling he was warned not to go on to Rochester as there was danger of his being captured on the road . |
| 2 | Trying to get them not to go on with all this looking and looking , seeing and seeing … |
| 3 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 4 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 5 | Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 7 | Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back . |
| 8 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 9 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 10 | I shall go at sixty three at the latest , I 'm not going on to sixty five |
| 11 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not going on about anything , John , ’ said Jannie . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Robert , as they walked up the High Street , ‘ and I 'm not going on about it , but exactly why did Ali sentence me to death ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 15 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 16 | And if I were ill , someone else would take over , I need not go on with this . |
| 17 | But for some reason Alice would not go on with that thought . |
| 18 | He asked whose side I was on , and when I told him I was strongly opposed to Bodyline he said he thought it would be better if I did not go on with it . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not go on with that hideous old Frau . |
| 20 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 21 | ‘ If only she would not go on about Cambridge so , ’ Miss Waters regretted . |
| 22 | I will not go on about the statistics . |
| 23 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 24 | Do not go on to fill in the objectives list until you and your partner have begun negotiations on your expectations . |
| 25 | It may or may not go on to say " produced in conjunction with brand X or company Y " . |
| 26 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 27 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 28 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 29 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 30 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |