Example sentences of "i go on " in BNC.

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1 ‘ D' you want me to go on ? ’
2 My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek ..
3 Aware that he had broken in , Surkov urged me to go on improvising .
4 After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions .
5 He waited for me to go on , looking puzzled .
6 Do you want me to go on ?
7 Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) .
8 ‘ There was no reason for me to go on living .
9 ‘ Do you want me to go on ? ’
10 She appeared to wait for me to go on .
11 It 's something that will help me to go on .
12 Patience , determination , a good sense of humour … want me to go on ? ’
13 half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant .
14 I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ?
15 ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours .
16 The whole point is what am I going on to , I 'm going for free are n't I ?
17 Having said this , I go on to welcome the show .
18 I go on whacking the side of my leg .
19 But as long as I go on improving and enjoying myself I 'll play .
20 But as long as I go on improving and enjoying myself I 'll play .
21 I have often read this poem , starting off jubilantly , but growing disappointed as I go on .
22 I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) .
23 I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content .
24 I go on quietly , there 's no mystery and no problem , I 'm a quiet peaceful person .
25 ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest .
26 I go on laughing — I resist them .
27 Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease .
28 ( How I go on , month after month about these ! )
29 ‘ Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it 'll take some bettering .
30 I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up .
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