Example sentences of "on [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We carry on walking a bit . |
| 2 | I sha n't go on keeping a diary when I leave here . |
| 3 | We went on keeping a watch on his activities , but not for long , because he went out of business . |
| 4 | By refraining from questioning I 've allowed Liza to go on living a lie . |
| 5 | Now Diana will feel she need no longer go on living a lie trapped in a sham relationship . |
| 6 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 8 | He goes on to give a splendid example of the thing he has in mind , when an old Muslim tribesman went on urging a drug-addicted English hippy to ‘ pray to Jesus the Messiah ’ , until he was converted and delivered . |
| 9 | I do n't understand keep on paying a T V licence erm |
| 10 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 11 | The Flying Scotsman may never again set any records for speed , but loved and cared-for , no doubt she 'll go on holding a place in the hearts of steam enthusiasts for another 70 years , a reminder of the days when trains were smoky , dirty , smelly , and beautiful . |
| 12 | Charles and Diana were anxious to stress they will carry on providing a secure and loving environment . |
| 13 | If you keep on saying a thing long enough communist , everybody believes you even though it 's the biggest lie on earth . |
| 14 | He even smiled bravely as he carried on recording a show for the new series of You Bet , starting on Friday . |
| 15 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 16 | The only way to build self-confidence is to keep on having a go at goal-scoring . |
| 17 | Concerned now that there is a pressing need to draw Eastern Europe and the Third World into the debate , she is nevertheless convinced of the continued centrality if the market economy as a force for change : ‘ The market will go on having a fantastically important role , pushing things forward . ’ |
| 18 | Henry liked his company because it was convivial ; the staying in bed disconcerted him partly because they went on having a good time together however energetically Finch adopted inertia . |
| 19 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 20 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 21 | Ms Maeve Sherlock , president of the National Union of Students , said : ‘ The Government must now take on running a scheme which the best financial experts in the country want nothing to do with . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 23 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |
| 24 | This means that , as we continue to diet , we must reduce calorie intake a little more in order to go on achieving a satisfactory rate of weight loss . |
| 25 | I should n't bother I should just carry on chucking a bit on here and there same as everybody does , I ca n't see many buggers go for that bloody eight pound a bag . |
| 26 | I ignored it and carried on taking a long break . |
| 27 | Sylvestra le Touzel , as Percy 's wife , swishes back her skirt to indicate hauteur and then carries on playing a petulant Sloane . |
| 28 | At the end of the debate , the House will give its support for the Prime Minister carrying on playing a full part in European evolution — an evolution about which we have been too hesitant for too long . |
| 29 | It 's got to go on playing a world role . |
| 30 | But it was her identity , she said , it was all she had , and she went on putting a caste mark which she had no right to on her forehead and wearing all her gold bracelets and cooking sag ghosht and dal instead of the defrosted hamburgers and chips which was what most people ate around there . |