Example sentences of "[modal v] go [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 2 | We believe strongly that we should go on working together in full partnership in a Union that has served every part of the United Kingdom well . |
| 3 | Until that moment arrives , we must go on running over these creatures with as brave a face as we can muster . |
| 4 | I , I 'll go on reading then from eleven shall I ? |
| 5 | Otherwise they 'll go on nagging today . ’ |
| 6 | I think I 'll go round looking now |
| 7 | ‘ I think I 'll go round getting up a petition from the residents . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll go down to get though . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll go down fighting anyway , ’ said Otley . |
| 10 | ‘ And you 'll go back to work tomorrow , because you 'd never skip work , would you , Mister Reliable ? |
| 11 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 12 | From here we could go on to explore how the people in the castle manage without Melric . |
| 13 | We could go on to ask why they are n't common , which is another way of asking why the process of meiosis is normally fair , as scrupulously impartial as tossing a good penny . |
| 14 | And then you could go on going home for the vacations . |
| 15 | Ian , I wish we could go on talking endlessly about this because I find the subject quite fascinating and we have n't really talked about the details of your research . |
| 16 | She was terribly ambitious and I knew she 'd go on to do well . |
| 17 | I used to like that he 'd go here get off , get off . |
| 18 | Mothers who took time out from employment for motherhood in the seventies thinking they 'd go back to work later , find there is n't work to go back to . |
| 19 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 20 | I find them extremely depressing but I shall go on slogging away until my term as chairman ends in the early summer . ’ |
| 21 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 22 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 23 | Indeed , we would go on paying indefinitely if low wages and the presence of children from an earlier partnership would otherwise have driven the family 's income below the supplementary benefit level . |
| 24 | When the bows plunged into the slate black water at the bottom it seemed to her that they would go on diving in , engulfed by the on-rushing sea , never to return to the surface . |
| 25 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 26 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 27 | The British Company had shown that it could play an effective role in the rougher sort of Indian politics , but there was no reason to think it would go on doing so . |
| 28 | Now they would go on lying together , here . |
| 29 | I had a slow-growing tumour in the lung and it would take time to reach obnoxious proportions , but as sure as the moon will rise and set and the tides with it , so my tumour would go on grinding away until … |
| 30 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |