Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on flouting the popular will by refusing a referendum on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 2 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 6 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 7 | If you do want to go on receiving the New Internationalist you need do nothing . |
| 8 | In the Commons , the Energy Minister Tim Eggar said the government was prepared to go on funding the current redundancy terms available to miners until April next year . |
| 9 | On the other hand , she really wanted to go on exploring the nineteenth-century letters … |
| 10 | So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism . |
| 11 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 12 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 13 | My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it . |
| 14 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 15 | Backspace allows correction , carriage return or line feed terminates the process , while a decimal digit character is translated and the decimal number built up using the elementary formula |
| 16 | Device level routing is carried out using the same tool as for cell level routing , which gives near 100% routing density . |
| 17 | Encouraging experiments have been carried out utilizing the special skills of social workers ( Cooper et al. 1974 ; Shepherd et al. 1979 ) , clinical psychologists ( Johnston 1978 ; Robson et al. 1984 ) , and marriage guidance counsellors ( Marsh and Barr 1975 ; Cohen and Halpern 1978 ) working in general practice to provide help for patients with social problems . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 19 | The problem which arose over finding the right dress for Miss Humby 's appearance has been amply described in Ada McGeer 's book of personal memoirs which she has entitled ‘ Oh Call Back Yesterday , Bid Time Return ’ , wherein she describes fully her frantic but successful efforts to secure Miss Humby 's dress from a Vancouver shop . |
| 20 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 21 | No but they know the form , you know , we ca I ca n't erm I 'm not sure and then , now I 'm learning , you know , and it 's li I 'm learning the hard way and I 've got ta carry on learning the hard way cos I ca n't break it , you know ? |
| 22 | For the time being Jonathon will carry on cleaning the empty theatre in the hope that one day he 'll be on the stage and the seats will be full . |
| 23 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
| 25 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 26 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 27 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 28 | The Labour vote has declined because Liverpool people are fed up paying the highest poll tax in the country for a lor ra lor ra people who wo n't pay . |
| 29 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 30 | He climbed up to the catwalk and examined the roof , then strolled around surveying the empty space and making knowledgeable noises . |