Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll just sit around watching the men . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , as the Institute 's Council found last month , when it considered a preliminary paper on the subject , openness could actually end up destroying the effectiveness of the disciplinary process altogether . |
| 4 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 5 | His reaction had bewildered her , but she did n't want to dwell on it , because she knew that she would inevitably end up spending the entire evening thinking of him , and then feeling frustrated and angry with herself for having given in to her private weakness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You ca n't go on wearing the willow forever . ’ |
| 8 | " It 's not just because of us and because I ca n't go on tricking the Sisters . |
| 9 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 10 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 11 | The sad thing is such behaviour will only end up getting the poor stalker or ghillie the sack so it 's not worth the trouble . |
| 12 | For one thing your own troops will probably end up blocking the line of sight . |
| 13 | It will probably go on extending the purification technology to human blood . |
| 14 | Some younger patients will need to develop this into a walk/jog sequence to get the heart rate up to the necessary level , and will ultimately take up jogging the whole distance . |
| 15 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |