Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on flouting the popular will by refusing a referendum on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 2 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 4 | Amazingly , his talk was of going back to ravaged Yugoslavia soon to carry on reporting the bloody civil war . |
| 5 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 6 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 7 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 8 | Mr Nearn persuaded Mr Chapman to carry on producing the Seven , acting as sole concessionaire . |
| 9 | If you do want to go on receiving the New Internationalist you need do nothing . |
| 10 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 11 | In the Commons , the Energy Minister Tim Eggar said the government was prepared to go on funding the current redundancy terms available to miners until April next year . |
| 12 | This means that , as we continue to diet , we must reduce calorie intake a little more in order to go on achieving a satisfactory rate of weight loss . |
| 13 | On the other hand , she really wanted to go on exploring the nineteenth-century letters … |
| 14 | So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism . |
| 15 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 16 | I moved slowly letting the two dead men slide under me . |
| 17 | In two areas where unemployment was particularly high the farm , even though providing little or no financial return , was seen as an important factor in keeping the male school leavers occupied thereby fulfilling an important social function . |
| 18 | Exercises , whether for translation or other kinds of manipulation , can be neatly presented in sentences , with a tick or a mark for each one , and in this way everybody knows where they are going , and how far they have come in developing the necessary formal basis . |
| 19 | As a sound is a mantra , so an image is a yantra , the two used together making a powerful combination for spiritual exercises . |
| 20 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 21 | Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage . |
| 22 | During the heady 1980s , Tarmac got carried away chasing the easy money in housebuilding and property development . |
| 23 | In addition , alternative segmentations were permitted thus increasing the lexical access component 's chances of finding a suitable path . |
| 24 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |
| 25 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 26 | Perhaps I 'll play The Honey Smugglers ' ‘ Listen ’ just one more time , then snooze off counting the many great records that indie music has thrust our way in the past . |
| 27 | Today it seems like a miracle , if a somewhat blighted one , that his house , with but one to go before it , still stands directly facing the huge swathe which marks the Boulevard of Socialism . |
| 28 | My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it . |
| 29 | Shortly before birth the developed infant reverses its position and lies head downwards awaiting the muscular contractions in the mother which will bring about birth . |
| 30 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |