Example sentences of "on [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall carry on using the term regardless , and any hairy man who wants to challenge me about it is welcome to a wrestle . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'd let us go on using the park if you wrote and told him it was n't us who left the litter lying about , Guider . ’ |
| 3 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 4 | Please thank them all very much , and go on using the barn for as long as you like . ’ |
| 5 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 6 | And the designers have built in reassuring similarities to the products you know and love , such as the ‘ Lotus Classic ’ menu option in Lotus for Windows , which lets you go on using the familiar ‘ / ’ method to bring up menus , until you get used to the state-of-the-art stuff . |
| 7 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 8 | Those of us who want to go on using the lesion method should n't be too despondent about Wood 's results because the conditions under which a system like this will give double dissociations are likely to be very rare in nature . |
| 9 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 10 | What is important is that the Read codes will cover any information in a patient record and that clinicians can go on using the words they like — ‘ breathlessness , ’ for example , when taking a patient 's history — though they will have to be more disciplined about abbreviations . |
| 11 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 12 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 13 | Never even crossed my mind that Hurley would carry on like nothing had happened — that he 'd keep Eurame open and go on using the pipeline . |
| 14 | it 's a shame that we , we still carry on using the word quality . |
| 15 | And , it 's , it 's better roll than keep on using the thumb to get you out of the keyboard but , if , I do n't want it to spoil |
| 16 | Problematic as sexual difference may be , there is no alternative : we must , continues Kristeva , ‘ go on waging the war between the two races without respite , without a perverse denial of the abyss that marks sexual difference or a disillusioned mortification of the division ’ . |
| 17 | They went on sharpening the shears . |
| 18 | By drawing the polymer off , new cross-links are formed and you go on drawing the thread until all the constituents are used up . |
| 19 | So a widow who defers retirement and carries on drawing the widow 's allowance gets no increase in her pension . |
| 20 | He carried on sanding the blank into shape . |
| 21 | I STILL CA N'T BELIEVE THAT YOU INTEND TO CARRY ON SEEING THE TART BEHIND LAURA 'S BACK ! |
| 22 | Mr Nearn persuaded Mr Chapman to carry on producing the Seven , acting as sole concessionaire . |
| 23 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 24 | Say whether you will be happy to go on eating the product now that you are more aware of what it contains . |
| 25 | If there must be a parting , Britain would continue to honour her side of the Anglo-American nuclear understandings : Holy Loch and the Fylingdales radar station would still be available to the United States ; RAF bases would continue to house US bombers ; and Britain would carry on accepting the risks that all this entailed . |
| 26 | I go on whacking the side of my leg . |
| 27 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 28 | ‘ No good you going on pressing the lever when there 's no pink , is there ? |
| 29 | " It 's not just because of us and because I ca n't go on tricking the Sisters . |
| 30 | I want to see how long he 'll go on denying the fact that he was listening in , she told herself to justify her inability to leave . |