Example sentences of "[verb] on [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | On the other hand , she really wanted to go on exploring the nineteenth-century letters … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Love , pride , and foolishness combined to make him keep on wearing the green coat , however . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He kept on remembering the good bits , that was the trouble . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 19 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 20 | The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound . |
| 21 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 22 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 23 | There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |