Example sentences of "[adv] go on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And slowly goes on growing up . |
| 2 | " Are you sure you 're well enough to go on hunting , Dad ? " he asked anxiously . |
| 3 | Inspired by the words of his immigrant father , who told him , ‘ You could be anything you want to be , if you wanted it bad enough and were willing to work for it , ’ Lee Iacocca worked his way up to the presidency of Ford Motor Company , from which he was abruptly fired by Henry Ford II , only to go on to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy , thumb his nose at Ford in a best-selling autobiography , renovate the Statue of Liberty , and gain mention as a possible presidential candidate . |
| 4 | Only to go on making towards the smoke , that was all they needed to do . |
| 5 | The answer follows through : it is , as a minimum , to provide the graduates of higher education with the capacity not merely to go on learning , but also to go on being critical of all they encounter in thought and action . |
| 6 | Yet among the half million Palestinians now living in Lebanon , many stubbornly went on cherishing these keys and their titles of ownership in Palestine . |
| 7 | Caroline stared at him , waiting for him to smile , to give some hint that he 'd made a joke she 'd simply not understood , but he only went on looking at her , his face as cool and composed as if he 'd done nothing more than offer to top up her sherry . |
| 8 | They can not figure it out , and so go on acting out of their inward instinctive patterning . |
| 9 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 10 | And you 'd better go on loving them . |
| 11 | Palmer was looking to equal that — and perhaps go on to take the US PGA Championship too , the golden grand slam . |
| 12 | I can only go on reading their case notes , and knowing a little bit about the home situation from talking to folks … ’ |
| 13 | The safest way to proceed with a project that uses any unusual components is to buy these components first , and to only go on to buy the remaining components once you actually have the ‘ hard to find ’ items in your possession . |
| 14 | The father can only go on to know God more profoundly and as the young man men become stronger , they are more aware of the indwelling spirit of power to overcome the tempter . |
| 15 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 16 | Going on holiday to Lloret is a bit like going to a party that has a real buzz when you arrive and just goes on getting better and better and better . |
| 17 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 18 | By doing this its vitality is not completely stopped , it somehow goes on flowing , and the plant , as it were , simply gulps a little , and gets on with expanding . |
| 19 | Thus Boyd Tonkin in the New Statesman & Society , who nevertheless went on to decide : ‘ Alas , I think we must . ’ |
| 20 | The population nevertheless went on increasing until the decennial census of 1851 , when it reached a peak of about 424,000 . |
| 21 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 22 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 23 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 24 | In dogs and cats , they burrow into the gut and swell into horrible big worms and lodge in the small intestine ; but in humans they just go on spreading these spiral patterns for about 18 months and then die . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You just go on living anyway , partly to overcome Scots ' shortcomings with presenting and expressing themselves . ’ |
| 26 | Just go on hating him , ill-wishing him until his body reached its natural conclusion . |
| 27 | ‘ If you just go on walking , ’ said the Cat , ‘ in the end you 'll arrive somewhere . ’ |
| 28 | Now Diana will feel she need no longer go on living a lie trapped in a sham relationship . |
| 29 | Best went on to list conceptual and logistical barriers to achieving a merger . |
| 30 | Lost in the contemplation of her beauty and the music of her voice , I just went on looking , waiting for her to speak again . |