Example sentences of "[verb] on [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 2 | Even when under arrest , Peter goes on caring for others . |
| 3 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 4 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 5 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 6 | I went to all the customers and offered to carry on delivering for threepence a week . |
| 7 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 8 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 9 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 10 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 11 | Yer know , Doll , when I was about fifty , and goin' through you know what , well this Sunday I was feelin' there was n't much left to go on livin' for . |
| 12 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 13 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 14 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 15 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 16 | And yet , because of a shortage of telephone lines in the old east , and even though the government has a legal monopoly , it will allow the networks to go on operating for at least another year . |
| 17 | Give what I hope is curt nod , though double chins seem to go on flapping for ever . |
| 18 | I mean to stop hating , but to go on fighting for what is right for my people . ’ |
| 19 | Charlie Francis is guilty of a sporting crime — of that I am sure — but what about the guilt of those in high officialdom who have allowed the situation to go on growing for 20 years without trying to stop it ? |
| 20 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 21 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 22 | In other words , you do n't have to go on working for peanuts ! |
| 23 | If taxes are not providing the education , health-care and national welfare services that the public wants , will the public be willing to go on paying for them ? |
| 24 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 25 | The immediate family and carers go through a chronic grief process alongside the need to go on caring for and sustaining a person who is slipping away , cognitively , behaviourally and emotionally . |
| 26 | Strangely , it was decided that a repeat investigation was not required and I was allowed to go on caring for the patient throughout her stay . |
| 27 | I want to go on playing for Australia ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 29 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 30 | In fact , he had hung on waiting for her to go , avoiding her . |