Example sentences of "[verb] on [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it goes on moving in a straight line , rather than in circles , followed from what Descartes described as the immutability and simplicity of the conserving operation . |
| 2 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 3 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 4 | She could n't carry on sitting in the comparative warmth of the jeep in the middle of nowhere , in the hope that a helpful garage man — or woman ; she was n't choosy — might happen by . |
| 5 | There are 5000 collapses and blockages every year in England and Wales and , says the Water Research Centre , the number will carry on increasing in the coming decades . |
| 6 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |
| 7 | ‘ The shop frontage , ’ the young man went on to explain in a tired voice , ‘ is twenty-two feet . |
| 8 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 9 | It had blossomed ever since , and went on developing in an exciting overflowing fountain of ideas and discoveries during our period . |
| 10 | The photograph was taken in 1987 and shows and up and coming local athlete who went on to compete in the Olympic Games . |
| 11 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 12 | and went on pouring in the horrible growing |
| 13 | He leaned his great bronzed forehead on his hand , turning his face gratefully to the cool of the night air , and went on talking in the soft , absorbed voice of one alone with his own spirit . |
| 14 | He scored on his debut , against Plymouth up at The Palace on 15 October when we romped to a 6–1 win , and went on to play in every remaining match that season . |
| 15 | ‘ Carry On goes in a seven-year cycle . |
| 16 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |