Example sentences of "they go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 2 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 3 | Agreeing with something someone else has said is a powerful way to encourage them to go on and say more . |
| 4 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 5 | them to Go on |
| 6 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 7 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 8 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , you ca n't expect them to go on saying yes for ever . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 11 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 12 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 13 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 14 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 15 | We can actually see them going on , from year to year . |
| 16 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 17 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 18 | But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held . |
| 19 | Let them go on thinking of you as una paloma . |
| 20 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 21 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 22 | In the end , I simply let them go on thinking what they wanted to think . ’ |
| 23 | go with them we ca n't let them go on there own , I mean once there 've school , you 've got to take come back later or something . |
| 24 | But there is a sense in which , because people are living longer , er we tend to think , ‘ well , let them go on working ’ . |
| 25 | Individuals among them went on to say : |
| 26 | At the same time , as a result of Spanish-American fiction 's growing popularity , the work of the earlier writers mentioned became more widely known and some of them went on to enhance their reputation by producing new works in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 28 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 29 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 30 | Many of them went on to fly , and some of them to die , for their country . |