Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I want to see Laverne home and dry , yet I do n't want to carry on feeding passenger leeches a minute longer . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to carry on wearing navy myself , ’ he adds , somewhat unnecessarily , as we discuss the newly-expanded spectrum of his professional palette . |
| 3 | UniSoft expects to be able to carry on making money out of contracts to port the various flavours of Unix — and their associated testing mechanisms — to and from different architectures as companies come and go and change development strategies . |
| 4 | You may meet a saddler who is the sixth generation of his family to carry on making bell harnesses . |
| 5 | Do they want to carry on playing rugby ? |
| 6 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 7 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 8 | The brokers note that representations are being made to the Treasury to enable USM companies that switched to the Official List to go on enjoying inheritance tax relief by extending this relief to all family-owned companies . |
| 9 | The Celts would have been allowed to go on collecting mistletoe in their forests . |
| 10 | Why are they allowing the ratepayers and taxpayers of this country to go on throwing money down the drain ? |
| 11 | One can not really believe that the whole of the world is going to go on maximizing production of agricultural produce , when — I much is already destined to end up as mountains of grain , or butter , or meat — or lakes of wine or olive oil . |
| 12 | To assuage the tension resulting from linguistic warfare , you have to go on humouring group A or group B or group C or group D , and conceivably all of them together . |
| 13 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 14 | What should I do if I want to go on losing weight ? |
| 15 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 16 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 17 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 18 | Usually it 's fine to go on making love during your pregnancy . |
| 19 | We are half-hearted creatures , fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us , like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he can not imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea . |
| 20 | ‘ About us ? ’ she said , turning upright again to go on treading water . |
| 21 | All we can do it seems is to keep on applying pressure in the hope the Government will have change of heart , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I 've seen her angry in that dress many times , but never as angry as when some man said to her , I do n't see why we have to keep on giving money like this . |
| 23 | Coun Bill Stenson called for more schools to take on cycling proficiency and road safety courses for children . |