Example sentences of "[verb] on [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 5 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 6 | If you do want to go on receiving the New Internationalist you need do nothing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Love , pride , and foolishness combined to make him keep on wearing the green coat , however . |
| 15 | and , and you know you could n't get a lot of money , although of course nationally , the rates of pay were governed nationally , they were going up and up and up and there was no way that we could keep pace , we could n't keep on increasing the tuppeny fare . |
| 16 | In order to bring about a deterioration in the patient 's condition with low potency remedies one would have to keep on repeating the wrong remedy many times and even then it is unlikely that much would happen unless the patient were particularly frail and weak , in which case they should be having constitutional treatment to boost their overall state and not ‘ first aid ’ treatment for the little bits that go wrong . |
| 17 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 18 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 19 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 20 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 21 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation . |
| 23 | ‘ Very uncomfortable , I expect , ’ said Fenella and went on studying the black stone buildings to see if there was a small , partly hidden door that they might use to get inside . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I keep on thinking the same thing . |
| 26 | 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 . |