Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | To a first approximation it is also possible to write thereby allowing use of the data from either type of measurement to characterize the sample . |
| 22 | Demand for health care is clearly not ‘ infinite ’ , but it is difficult to meet rapidly rising demand in an affluent society . |
| 23 | ‘ My wife bought me a small kit to try out using wool — which is rather like painting by numbers — and I have not looked back since . ’ |
| 24 | The purpose of this research project is to obtain presently lacking information on the way of life , social structure and ideology of a Bantu-speaking people called Lungu who live around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in East-Central Africa . |
| 25 | As you , Sir , will know , in two successive years , I have raised the question of access for Members , which is most important , because it allows us to exercise our right to come here carrying information , messages and representations on behalf of the people whom we represent . |
| 26 | Similarly the International Chamber of Commerce has rightly refused to incorporate into the Uniform Customs and practice for Docu-mentary Credits ( UCP ) rules as to the effect of forgery or other fraud , taking the position that the essential function of the UCP is to codify best banking practice in the handling of credits , not to provide a comprehensive legal text . |
| 27 | Hand-held stick microphones — except the very expensive professional ones are prone to pick up handling noise . |
| 28 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |
| 29 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 30 | Publishers found themselves forced into a downward spiral of competitive explicitness , and formed a bizarre trade association , drawing up voluntary guidelines to avoid continually courting prosecution . |