Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't forget that you can keep on using your FlexiLoan until you reach your borrowing limit . |
| 2 | If , on the other hand , your exercises are insufficient to stimulate your limb and heart muscles , thus providing aerobic exercise , then you will be effectively wasting your time . |
| 3 | The equivalent , I suppose , of someone who loves chocolate falling into a big vat of the stuff and unhurriedly eating their way out ! |
| 4 | ‘ If things did n't carry on the way they have been , I would carry on enjoying my life . |
| 5 | ‘ Carry on enjoying your life in your own home with a Stannah Stairlift … ‘ |
| 6 | In both instances a worker , acting in his own self-interest , may choose to retain his benefits ( by refusing extra pay or a job ) , thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State . |
| 7 | How else , besides using her leg muscles , might she be able to help herself to stand up ? |
| 8 | But if artists and art critics go on nursing their grudge against everything Soviet and do not combine their efforts in order to organise a museum of Soviet culture , which would highlight the Soviet variant of Socialism , this artistic phenomenon will inevitably disappear like the notorious armoured car . |
| 9 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 10 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 11 | His portrait was modified , in stages which can be dated by coins , from a depiction in the tradition of a Hellenistic king to one based on the canons valued in the Greek city-state , thereby reflecting his change from being one of the warlords in the civil wars after Caesar 's death to a new ‘ democratic ’ position after the settlement as first citizen , ‘ first among equals ’ ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 12 | This woman violates the taboo of not touching any man when in a state of impurity by secretly touching his garment , hoping thereby to heal herself . |
| 13 | SEA-LION pups seem safe as they lounge on a Patagonian beach , slowly building their strength and preparing themselves for their departure into the sea . |
| 14 | But today he just carried on eating his pot roast with his head down , paying no attention at all to his argumentative brood . |
| 15 | We ca n't er we ca n't give up smoking if you 're gon na keep on sucking your thumb . |
| 16 | As she joined him , rather shyly accepting his glance of approval at her slim body in its white bikini , the wind stirred his hair , blowing it out of its rigidly swept-back style . |
| 17 | It is human nature to advocate change in someone else 's affairs whilst vigorously opposing its necessity in one 's own . |
| 18 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |
| 19 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 20 | They were everywhere , slowly inching their way across the desert . |
| 21 | Colleges do not admit students unless they seem capable of sustaining and successfully completing their college courses — and of entering fully into college life . |
| 22 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
| 23 | Jonas : ‘ Day after day the sirens would scream dismally , and already our Hurricanes would be wearily climbing their way up into the sun . |
| 24 | This was her very first tropical rain shower , and she decided that , in spite of acutely disliking her companion , this was an experience definitely not to be missed . |
| 25 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
| 26 | He looked like a mammoth black Tailor of Gloucester , delicately plying his needle . |
| 27 | ‘ Now , ’ and carried on banging his head . |
| 28 | But Pike kept on banging his head against the floor . |
| 29 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 30 | Jonathan Dimbleby tried interruption , thereby revealing his unfamiliarity with the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby . |