Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 THE SOVIET UNION and Pakistan remain bitterly divided as to how the conflict in Afghanistan should be resolved , despite having agreed on the wording for a United Nations resolution in the hope of avoiding a public row at the General Assembly , diplomats said yesterday .
2 They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope .
3 Yet in the tragedies these villains are never satisfied : Macbeth goes on killing like some automaton , Iago goes on destroying until he has brought everyone down .
4 The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust .
5 Having slipped in this normative bias , Plekhanov goes on to consider whether a series of accidents might not change the course of history .
6 Most of us had reached the point where we wanted to carry on drinking until we collapsed .
7 RACING legend Lester Piggott last night vowed to carry on riding as he lay in his The 11-times champion jockey has a partially collapsed lung , broken collar bone , damaged spleen , broken ribs and facial cuts after falling from his horse at 40mph in Miami .
8 If you want to carry on working after you are 60 , you have the choice of drawing your state pension and adding your earnings to it , or postponing your retirement .
9 After November 1987 , a woman who wants to carry on working after state retirement age will be protected from unfair dismissal by her employer , provided the retirement age for a man doing her job is above the age of 60 .
10 The most serious charge against the women 's union was that it proposed to carry on working if the men went ahead with their strike .
11 ‘ Do you intend to carry on studying after you have completed this course ? ’
12 Ed had doubts about Dee — he was a bit , kind of , uncool at times — just like Dee to carry on climbing when everyone else knew it was boring .
13 Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately .
14 He imagined her wish to go on teaching for they shared , he and she , did they not , a pastoral compulsion .
15 To go on acting as though there were is to add to the layers of falsehood which already cover our ( so-called ) civilization .
16 She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was .
17 However , this approach may not always be the most successful one because it is so familiar to most of us , and in a competitive situation people are able to go on reasoning until the cows come home .
18 She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped .
19 With this and a preliminary draft of the expenditure plans , ministers had to go on arguing until they reach an agreed compromise .
20 It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed .
21 Similarly there is no assumption that repeated use of a ruler in 4c is more demanding than single use of it in 4b , but this and similar instances need to be examined empirically to see if the task differences concerned are also difficulty factors .
22 Always eat sitting down , and only sit down to eat when everything is ready : the meal itself , drink , cutlery , condiments .
23 Try , come on sit down see if you 've got any more Sit down properly come on .
24 Use your mirrors , on narrow or winding roads or where there is a lot of oncoming traffic , drivers of large or slow moving vehicles should be prepared to pull in and slow down to stop as soon as there is suitable opportunity , well , before you take off or turn left or turn right , or slow down or stop , use your mirrors , you should always look behind even if they 're none , a motor cycle should always look behind either , then give the appropriate signal if necessary , remember the routine
25 During the evening his wife was very nervous and became extremely agitated when the British guns started up , the shells passing over the village with a loud roar .
26 However , circumstances can change , and you are invited to contact the offices listed below to ascertain whether your chosen establishment is currently registered .
27 Thus change only occurs when individuals are encouraged to change their normative orientations in attitudes , beliefs , values , knowledge , skills , roles and relationships .
28 The task of philosophy itself became somewhat downgraded if , like all other knowledge , it was socially determined .
29 The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again .
30 Well I can only make much notes as my hand will allow me to .
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