Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 2 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 4 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 5 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 6 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 7 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 8 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 9 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 10 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |