Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drucker ( 1985 ) , in writing about innovation , poses the question , ‘ How can managers expect to plan for — or count upon — a process that is itself so dependent on creativity , inspiration , and old-fashioned luck ? ’ and then goes on to answer it by saying ‘ There are , of course , innovations that spring from a flash of genius . |
| 2 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 3 | but he then goes on to ignore it . |
| 4 | Erm and he goes on to describe it as something more near . |
| 5 | Mr Morton goes on to say it was the Queen who persuaded her not to try to end her marriage and to accompany her husband on their official visit to South Korea . |
| 6 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |
| 7 | Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . |
| 8 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 9 | And we both know just how much I 'd like to carry on doing it , so do n't tempt me to start ! ’ |
| 10 | Well , now there is , as long as they 're allowed to go on calling it a Healey . |
| 11 | Edward 's parliamentary grant of tonnage and poundage had automatically lapsed at his death , although the government attempted to go on collecting it , apparently on the assumption that it would be regranted in the next parliament , summoned for 25 June . |
| 12 | Edward 's parliamentary grant of tonnage and poundage had automatically lapsed at his death , although the government attempted to go on collecting it , apparently on the assumption that it would be regranted in the next parliament , summoned for 25 June . |
| 13 | Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly . |
| 14 | No , no , no , no , no , he said , it 's got to be the real thing , you 've got to start out as you mean to go on Get it right from the beginning . |
| 15 | But I 'm not prepared to go on renting it . |
| 16 | She glanced down at the ring now , and found herself wondering , as she did occasionally , if it really was necessary for her to go on wearing it . |
| 17 | For the dreamer this illusion represents a deep and pleasurable necessity — which accounts for the well-known state of mind in which a dreamer can say , " It is a dream : I want to go on dreaming it . " |
| 18 | If we ca n't get anything else and we ca n't afford anything else we 've just got to go on paying it but |
| 19 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 20 | I 'm quite willing to go on doing it . |
| 21 | It was still new to him and he wanted to go on doing it . |
| 22 | Lizzie wanted to go on doing it . |
| 23 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 24 | Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse . |
| 25 | He waved his ID and smiled and the clerk did n't even jack in to check it . |
| 26 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 27 | At the other end , Town left the goal unlocked again and Alex Dyer crept in to make it 2-0 . |
| 28 | After a month or so , its head has developed sufficiently to allow it to open its jaws . |
| 29 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
| 30 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |