Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [v-ing] [noun] " 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 | Do they want to carry on playing rugby ? |
| 3 | John said , ‘ I do want to go on helping people . ’ |
| 4 | What should I do if I want to go on losing weight ? |
| 5 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 6 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 7 | If the baby needs to go on taking medicines or vitamins , ask the doctor to prescribe something that does not contain any colouring or other unnecessary ingredients . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
| 10 | This whole process gave my life an additional fullness which has gone on gathering momentum since I left school . |
| 11 | It has gone on reducing income tax from the levels of 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 12 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to carry on wearing navy myself , ’ he adds , somewhat unnecessarily , as we discuss the newly-expanded spectrum of his professional palette . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the record company — the one division of the company which supported the rest — staff had been made redundant , yet money had been found to go on buying nightclubs , expand the empire . |
| 17 | He joked about having to go on making speeches without my help … |
| 18 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 19 | ‘ He would have carried on doing things the same way . |
| 20 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 21 | Svidrigailov would never have said that ; he would have gone on making jokes about America . |
| 22 | Unionists also resisted Lloyd Georges attempt to go on running things as in wartime , insisting that the war cabinet should be wound up after peacemaking was completed . |
| 23 | Nurses in clinical practice are increasingly being asked to take on teaching roles , and need to develop effective teaching skills . |
| 24 | The Celts would have been allowed to go on collecting mistletoe in their forests . |
| 25 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 26 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 27 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The recent contracts are all relatively small , 20,000–30,000 hours apiece , so we need to keep on winning projects like that . |
| 30 | 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 . |