Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ D' you know because so many people switch off their TVs by remote control instead of pulling out the plug , they go on using electricity , the same in one night that would power Leicester for one day . |
| 2 | Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media , and published once more on the subject before 1942 . |
| 3 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 4 | As long as we go on subsidising house purchase to make buying and selling so enormously profitable , and to make renting unprofitable for landlords and for tenants , so long will the rented sector continue to decline . |
| 5 | The brokers note that representations are being made to the Treasury to enable USM companies that switched to the Official List to go on enjoying inheritance tax relief by extending this relief to all family-owned companies . |
| 6 | Carry on enjoying life with a Stannah |
| 7 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 8 | This whole process gave my life an additional fullness which has gone on gathering momentum since I left school . |
| 9 | The dog never paid any attention to any of these commands , but , like most dogs , carried on eating golf balls , smelling strangers ' private parts , and looking immensely pleased with himself . |
| 10 | I 'll go on accepting payment until the course finishes |
| 11 | He went on scoffing food . |
| 12 | All we can do it seems is to keep on applying pressure in the hope the Government will have change of heart , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In the same year , most of the county councils within the Severn-Trent region were carrying out some agricultural land-drainage work , and private farmers , even without drainage grants , were bringing in dredging machinery on rivers , to get water off their land . |
| 14 | The problem comes in allowing frustration to build until you explode . |
| 15 | Cows lying down heralding rain and swallows flying high signalling good weather are two of the many indications that people have followed . |
| 16 | Climb onto a platform and your weight sets the contraption in motion the deck rides up and down simulating ocean swells , the soundtrack plays the moans of whale songs , and a film projection shows an opening and closing hand that approaches and recedes in wavelike sequence on the now-rotating screens . |
| 17 | Social psychologists have attempted to pin it down using video recordings , ‘ participant/observer ’ reports , and interviews with hooligans . |
| 18 | The 160bp DNA fragment was then electroeluted from acrylamide , purified by phenol extraction and the ends filled in using Klenow fragment ( Gibco-BRL ) . |
| 19 | Her home-made toffee apples were the real thing even though more often than not , when the coating was licked away , green fruit would be revealed and the sticks always look like cut down kindling wood , as they probably were . |
| 20 | Four wyverns from the Worlds Edge Mountains took to the air , swooping and marauding within the city while Goblin doom divers rained down causing panic and consternation . |
| 21 | Thirdly , continuity can be given to the walking route by continuing footways across side roads , a measure which also slows down turning traffic . |
| 22 | CUT DOWN MARKING TIME |
| 23 | A new Marking Kit cuts down marking time dramatically . |
| 24 | The door burst open and two men came in wearing stocking masks . |
| 25 | You can adjust each of these colour pots up or down , by taking the mouse button into the up or down pointing arrow and clicking . |
| 26 | They arrived at Las Palmas a month before the start , after setting off from their base , Down Cruising Club on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland , on 16 September . |
| 27 | He said me and the boys we 're standing all day watching her when she 's bending down putting box in a sack |
| 28 | but that was the world of yesterday … today its a world that runs along making money and giving pleasure to millions … |
| 29 | and erm , we 'd got there and a young lady came along delivering milk you know with a big milk float and she put the , the twins Brenda and |
| 30 | New Zealand smoking rates down following tobacco ad ban 10 , ii |