Example sentences of "[vb past] on [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Electric installations were smashed with sledgehammers and then switched on melting connexions in complete destruction .
2	I kept on popping questions , he would n't answer , all he could do was look as if I had no right to ask .
3	The blackbird then flew up and took the cheese from his hand and kept on taking pieces of cheese .
4	I kept on taking shots anyway so as not to lose face . ’
5	I remember a very difficult erm problem I had when I erm was ordering some goods from a mail order firm and I kept on getting letters back after replies to mine , from the computer , and these letters were totally unconnected with my letter and I found this very very frustrating .
6	‘ And you remember that rotten fence we kept on breaking pieces off the top of . ’
7	Trotter flinched but kept on looking wooden-faced .
8	Pat and Chris were very fond of animals , and kept on throwing things for Sausage , whom they knew , of course , as Fido .
9	Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , said : ‘ I kept on writing poetry while I was in hospital to fill the time and keep my spirits up . ’
10	TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating .
11	He was very angry about the shooting and kept on shouting threats about what he 'd do to Lou Vecchi when he caught up with him .
12	( I kept on remembering Penny Lester 's grisly dormitory stories about how her mother survived being raped by the Japanese , I kept on saying , do n't resist , do n't resist .
13	Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy .
14	( She had started , but kept on scribbling notes . )
15	Naturally the stick he kept on beating Unix with was its fragmentation .
16	Morris kept on saying things to you , to reach you .
17	He kept on heading west , lured by the magnet of Hawaii .
18	I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre .
19	After all , she worked on the nineteenth-century industrial novel for something like ten years , and even after publishing her book she went on accumulating ideas and insights about the subject .
20	The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks .
21	Most of the cash went on redesigning logic devices , For instance , engineers installed circuits to filter out noise from mains supplies ; twist-wire cables are specified for data highways .
22	He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture .
23	Miliutin went on writing memoranda after the war had come to an end .
24	And we went on writing poems , in that luxuriant air of mingled spirituality and sexual anguish .
25	Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media , and published once more on the subject before 1942 .
26	She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy .
27	Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons .
28	He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred .
29	He had practically no money left in the world , but he went on drinking champagne on credit .
30	And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still .

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