Example sentences of "to go [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was the Universe destined to go on expanding forever , or might it be that gravity would eventually pull all the galaxies back together again until there was a ‘ Big Crunch ’ — later to be followed by a new Big Bang ? |
| 2 | If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever , the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole , which will then begin to lose mass . |
| 3 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 4 | And why had he felt the need to go on pretending right up until the very last minute ? |
| 5 | That will be sufficient to oblige me to choose the inclination which I felt increasing pari passu with intensifying awareness , after which choice there will be no need to go on agonizing over his plight , which might even impair my efficiency as a helper . |
| 6 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 7 | Not to sleep but simply to think , freely and unobserved , without the burden of her mother 's solicitude , the obligation not only to look cheerful but to go on repeating how well she felt so that Amabel — always unnerved by silence — should not weary her further by growing alarmed . |
| 8 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 9 | B's reply would be taken to mean that he would not completely agree with what A said , and A would probably expect B to go on to explain why he was reluctant to agree . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've decided to go on living here at the farm with Poppa , ’ she was saying . |
| 11 | You have to believe that if you and she are going to go on living together . ’ |
| 12 | Augustus Melmotte , the rich entrepreneur hero of the book , feared his debts would not allow him to go on living anywhere , and killed himself . |
| 13 | We lost our home — there was no way Mum could afford to go on living there — and had to move into a little council house . |
| 14 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 15 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 16 | In fact , it will only just have begun — because we will need to go on working hard to sustain that achievement . |
| 17 | ( Except for one Harvard undergraduate who held the world record , and seemed able to go on springing forever . ) |
| 18 | She had the feeling that if she could get Eddie to go on talking long enough , there was a chance that something significant would emerge . |
| 19 | I told him I wanted to go on to work afterwards , nut really I needed thinking time to try and figure him out . |
| 20 | I do n't want to go on stringing together stirring quotation . |
| 21 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 22 | We 've provided a grammar school education for the people of this area for 700 years and intend to go on doing so . ’ |
| 23 | Services should n't assume that because relatives cope silently they want to go on doing so for ever . |
| 24 | He meant to go on doing so . ’ |
| 25 | Do you work all day , and are you likely to go on doing so ? |
| 26 | Half of America 's rubbish dumps break the law , but are allowed to go on doing so , for the same reason . |
| 27 | He should not , for one , be asked to go on carrying heavily laden trays . |
| 28 | He simply wanted him to go on sitting there . |
| 29 | ‘ I wanted to go on playing here but life is too short to sit around doing nothing . |
| 30 | She is going to go on behaving beautifully and so I shall be forced to behave like a pig to establish the difference between us . |