Example sentences of "[verb] on [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then goes on to ask the same question about people with extraordinary talents , whether in physics , generalship or painting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 6 | In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again . |
| 7 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 8 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 9 | Marek went on to tell the same story as Tait had narrated to Blanche the day before in the circling car — of a brave man who was betrayed , tortured , castrated and shot . |
| 10 | I keep on thinking the same thing . |
| 11 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |