Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 2 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 3 | ‘ After all , you ca n't expect them to go on saying yes for ever . ’ |
| 4 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 5 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 6 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 7 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 8 | There was no alternative for the guilds than for them to go out to trade for assistance , passing on their additional expenditure to the client . |
| 9 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 10 | End result , everyone goes round saying , ‘ Ohhh — Perry Como 's a lovely man — but his agent … |
| 11 | Secondly , I know everyone goes around saying it , but I did n't really believe it ‘ til last night , but the defence really are crap ! ! |
| 12 | Aware that he had broken in , Surkov urged me to go on improvising . |
| 13 | ‘ There was no reason for me to go on living . |
| 14 | Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 17 | Still , it would n't do for me to go around claiming the authentic Machin genes . |
| 18 | One half is telling me to get out of bed whilst the stronger half is telling me to go back to sleep as it does n't matter if I 'm late for school . |
| 19 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 20 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 21 | On a Sunday I goes out selling , and all I earns I keeps . |
| 22 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 23 | You imagine someone going round kneecapping people ; that 's the sort of person I was . |
| 24 | Speaking about the survivors , when I go ashore do you want me to take them along and dump them ? ’ |
| 25 | I go up to meet Anita , anyway you can get a parking space up there , so I 've turned , drove up there they say I have n't left as early , it was while I was learning |
| 26 | After the deconstruction of my eidetic capability , Gyggle had insisted that I go on seeing him . |
| 27 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 28 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 29 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 30 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |