Example sentences of "[vb mod] go on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take it you 're agreed that we ought to go on expanding our hotel interests , right ? |
| 2 | It became important that he should go on believing the lie , for what he could do if he discovered the truth of the situation did n't bear thinking about . |
| 3 | What counts , then , is that Frodo should go on choosing . |
| 4 | This in itself is a mildly interesting observation and certainly needs to be made ; but what we should go on to do is to say why they do not appear there . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe you should go on thinking , ’ said Ludens , ‘ and I believe you should write it down . |
| 6 | So it seemed better that you should go on thinking that I was just — ’ |
| 7 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 8 | And moreover do n't you feel you have a responsibility to explain to ordinary people , particularly in your area , what it is you 're doing and why it 's important and why you should go on doing it ? ’ |
| 9 | Once you have established what your options are , you should go on to produce a specific recommendation or set of recommendations . |
| 10 | For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom . |
| 11 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 12 | Then , years later , when he bought his own table ( and a house big enough to put it in ) , and we started playing regularly , almost weekly , we wondered whether we should go on playing for money . |
| 13 | We believe strongly that we should go on working together in full partnership in a Union that has served every part of the United Kingdom well . |
| 14 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 15 | Whatever happens , you must go on writing . |
| 16 | She repeated , with a fair imitation of my voice , but with a smile that robbed the echo of any sting of impertinence : ‘ Whatever happens , you must go on writing . ’ ’ |
| 17 | But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects . |
| 18 | With a sinking heart , she also realised that she must go on living with the Ward family , at least for now . |
| 19 | School pupils must go on learning about 1066 and all that , declared the National Curriculum Council . |
| 20 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 21 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 22 | Until that moment arrives , we must go on running over these creatures with as brave a face as we can muster . |
| 23 | At the same time he must go on reassuring other parties — some of whom bloody-mindedly reject negotiation — that their views will be heard . |
| 24 | You must go on studying . |
| 25 | I 'll go on accepting payment until the course finishes |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm leaving now , and I 'm not touching you again tonight , because the next time I touch you I 'll go on touching you . |
| 27 | again very queer but I 'll go on looking |
| 28 | You 'll be safe here , and we 'll go on looking for your mammy and daddy . |
| 29 | And once the Worm 's in captivity — in a zoo or suchlike — it 'll go on reminding folk about Kershaw and the unemployed . ’ |
| 30 | I 'll go on reporting . |