Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 3 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 4 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 5 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 6 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 7 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 8 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 9 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 10 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 11 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 12 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 13 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 14 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 15 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 16 | They carried on walking round the side-shows . |
| 17 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 18 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 19 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 20 | These redundancies are necessary if we are to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Murdoch McKillop , joint receiver from accountants Arthur Andersen , said the 1,600 job losses at the five UK plants had to made ‘ to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation ’ . |
| 22 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 23 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 24 | You got ta carry on driving down the road . |
| 25 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 26 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 27 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 28 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 29 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 30 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |