Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the day before , she had waited for half an hour to go off walking by herself and it had never come . |
| 2 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 3 | I owe it to him to explain what 's happened between us , to get his permission to go on seeing you . ’ |
| 4 | Having mastered aerobatics in his little Deaky before the war , he had gained Hitler 's permission to go on bombing runs , although — boringly — only as a gunner . |
| 5 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 6 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 7 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 8 | The female sits inside the nest while the male goes off collecting nest material . |
| 9 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 10 | The Robina who 's dancing with the Archduke goes on dancing , whirling . |
| 11 | ‘ It was always my intention to go on playing in club competition with Constitution after finishing my international career and to that extent , I am disappointed by the way things have worked out , ’ Lenihan said . |
| 12 | The applicant goes away complaining vehemently about the treatment received , the official retires behind the partition to complain about yet another bad-tempered , ungrateful recipient of state benefits . |
| 13 | I do n't think it would do any good to go on talking . ’ |
| 14 | The review went largely according to Murrie 's specifications , with Armstrong and , from November , his successor , David Hubback , pruning the committees and Bridges and Brook handling the procedural aspects . |
| 15 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 16 | ‘ Dorcas is n't the type to go around dying all the time . |
| 17 | The machine goes on working . |
| 18 | No J James with a cheeky grin on his face just kee often when he gets in the mood goes round doing |
| 19 | But the metaphor goes on haunting us , he wrote . |
| 20 | I do n't think it 's of great benefit to English rugby to go around persuading people to stay on if it 's against their wishes , and possibly against their better judgement . |
| 21 | If ‘ philosophical inquiries ’ provided material for Tolkien to brood on , these ‘ lyric cores ’ gave him the stimulus to go on brooding , to keep philosophy from aridness . |
| 22 | Perhaps this may help to explain the determination of the anorexic to go on starving herself : without anorexia , I should have been nothing . |
| 23 | They show that institutions of higher education have the capacity to go on developing as self-critical corporations . |
| 24 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 25 | How would the Minister advise Hull city council to go about enforcing the law , bearing in mind that it can not go through the magistrates courts because of the cross-undertakings required ? |
| 26 | I stand outside and watch the girl going round asking other people for money . |
| 27 | The other lady went on spooning up her soup and Dot noticed how frequently she missed her mouth . |
| 28 | The terrain went on dipping and rising , a body breathing , spinneys , spires , housing estates and glossy-roofed industry trickling from its folds . |
| 29 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 30 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |