Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , she really wanted to go on exploring the nineteenth-century letters … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 7 | ‘ At least I do n't go round killing the poor buggers , ’ he says . |
| 8 | 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 . |