Example sentences of "went on [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 2 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 3 | Kate felt her cheeks tinge once more with pink as she went on listening to the good-natured chaff Mike Booker was taking on her behalf . |
| 4 | With the dropping of 11 days , the old March 25 became April 5 , and tax collectors went on working from the old day with its new date . |
| 5 | The population nevertheless went on increasing until the decennial census of 1851 , when it reached a peak of about 424,000 . |
| 6 | and went on pouring in the horrible growing |
| 7 | He leaned his great bronzed forehead on his hand , turning his face gratefully to the cool of the night air , and went on talking in the soft , absorbed voice of one alone with his own spirit . |