Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Miles Davis , now 63 , goes on developing , his most assiduous young admirer , Wynton Marsalis , goes on backtracking in search of his roots , taking other potentially excellent young players with him . |
| 2 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 3 | Community psychiatric nurses provide a vital service to the elderly mentally infirm enabling them to carry on living at home through the provision of medication and support . |
| 4 | Both the Saltburn and Marske clubs have been refused exemptions to carry on drinking at club premises between 5–7pm . |
| 5 | Even after the adoption of prerecording , ‘ cut keys ’ were still used , the artist being encouraged to carry on acting in character until the prompt was given , thereby reducing editing time . |
| 6 | First of all , you have to ascertain whether your strategy up the first part of the beat will make you want to carry on sailing on starboard tack for some time after the starting signal , or to tack onto port as soon as possible after the start . |
| 7 | Lester 's vow to carry on racing after horror fall |
| 8 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 9 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 10 | She wondered if it was all right for her to go on thinking about Baby . |
| 11 | Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents . |
| 12 | Eventually , if Jean-Claude wished to go on living with death and the dead he would have to do so alone . |
| 13 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 14 | ‘ It was always my intention to go on playing in club competition with Constitution after finishing my international career and to that extent , I am disappointed by the way things have worked out , ’ Lenihan said . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 16 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 17 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | The footsteps which were heard passing in the alleyway were of men walking not running in panic . |
| 19 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 20 | No luck this time , only a couple of redshanks take fright and fly off yelping in alarm , and a female merganser swims among the thongweed , head poking under the water to look for small fish . |
| 21 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 22 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 23 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
| 24 | The fact that precious substances have been sucked with so much gusto into the stream of mass consumption admittedly has small bearing on jewellery as an art . |
| 25 | The first option involved simply eliminating through traffic , principally through the use of one-way systems . |
| 26 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 27 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 28 | At night she lies there blinking with neglect . |
| 29 | Would you carry on going to church ? |
| 30 | Miss Lamb , of Marton , Middlesbrough , said she would carry on fighting on behalf of all the investors . |