Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on flouting the popular will by refusing a referendum on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 2 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 4 | If you do want to go on receiving the New Internationalist you need do nothing . |
| 5 | In the Commons , the Energy Minister Tim Eggar said the government was prepared to go on funding the current redundancy terms available to miners until April next year . |
| 6 | On the other hand , she really wanted to go on exploring the nineteenth-century letters … |
| 7 | So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism . |
| 8 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 9 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 10 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 11 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 12 | Still , it would n't do for me to go around claiming the authentic Machin genes . |
| 13 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 14 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 15 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 16 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 17 | The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound . |
| 18 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 19 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 20 | There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation . |
| 21 | ‘ Very uncomfortable , I expect , ’ said Fenella and went on studying the black stone buildings to see if there was a small , partly hidden door that they might use to get inside . |
| 22 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 23 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 24 | If you provide memorable highlights , people will go away feeling the whole event was good ; they will gradually forget the weak parts of the event ( though I hope you wo n't ) . |
| 25 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |
| 26 | Part of it went upwards perforating the leading edge of the fin in several places . |
| 27 | ‘ At least I do n't go round killing the poor buggers , ’ he says . |
| 28 | They 're not after looking after consumers or the workforce , this trade union should start considering how to go about re-nationalizing the public utility energy companies within this country . |
| 29 | How a nation safeguards the freedom of the meanest and least powerful of its people to protest , and how , it goes about redressing the just grievances of those and of others , will determine in part its degree of civilisation and its right to a place in the pantheon of nations . |