Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 2 | To cater for all susceptibilities , the party became the " National Unionist Association of Conservative and Unionist Associations " — a decision that allowed some local parties to go on calling themselves Conservative , but the name " Liberal " was at last dropped . |
| 3 | The malais attached a lot of importance to the foreigners going away thinking these places of starvation and imprisonment were little paradises of plenty and contentment . |
| 4 | And then they they used to pape lads going round selling papers you know the newspapers with no shoes and stockings on the feet . |
| 5 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |
| 6 | His shoulders went on shaking . |
| 7 | Then he felt her lashes stir at his cheek , and raised his head and kissed the place where they lay , and then her brow , her throat and her chin , while her lips went on smiling . |
| 8 | The three brothers went on trying to build their town of Skadar , and every night the stones fell apart and the buildings fell down . |
| 9 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 10 | The politicians may say Blah but the computers go on saying 0110100 or whatever it is , and it 's the people who can make sense of that who 'll be in the top bunk when the dam breaks . |
| 11 | Throughout the Minoan period , Cretan craftsmen went on making stone axes and maces . |
| 12 | It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed . |
| 13 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
| 14 | As a result , many of AEA 's bright scientists and engineers went out hunting for work . |
| 15 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 16 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 17 | But the elephants went gaily dancing and trumpeting away over the mountains , through Roumania and Georgia , through Turkey , Iran , and Afghanistan , until they came to their native land . |
| 18 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 19 | In 1992–93 , as the UK recession continued and banks went on reducing staff numbers , things became more difficult for the Institute and many of its members . |
| 20 | Traditionally , psychologists go about assessing children 's capabilities by using some standardized experimental task . |
| 21 | Two guitars went mysteriously missing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 25 | Terrorist organisations are usually too busy with other things to go around killing comedians . |
| 26 | Then , in addition , it decided it must limit local authorities ' powers to go on increasing local rates . |
| 27 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 28 | Corbett saw two of the assailants go down screaming , clutching red spouting wounds and hoped the rest would be too chastened to follow , surprised by the fierce resistance they had encountered . |
| 29 | But the government may have to let Kowloon 's shadowy firms go on polluting . |
| 30 | The other machines went on circling and dodging as before . |