Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amazingly , his talk was of going back to ravaged Yugoslavia soon to carry on reporting the bloody civil war . |
| 2 | But he , he said to the insurance people no I do n't want you just to keep on paying the bills . |
| 3 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 4 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 5 | Rog just kept on putting the boot into him . |
| 6 | She just carries on watching the telly . |
| 7 | There was some pretty rough weather during December 1935 and the writer recalls seeing ex-Croydon Corporation No. 19E sweeping snow at Selhurst Station , while work was still going on erecting the double overhead wires . |
| 8 | it 's a shame that we , we still carry on using the word quality . |
| 9 | We do n't actually make up , he still carries on paying the same , we do n't , we do n't increase the allocation , when he gets to sixty , or sixty five or whenever . |
| 10 | It will probably go on extending the purification technology to human blood . |
| 11 | So it is important now to go on fighting the battles , once so hard-won . |
| 12 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 13 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
| 14 | The woman dropped rennet into the two cauldrons , stirred them , and then went on peeling the mound of artichokes in silence . |
| 15 | Similarly , in the post-war period , the national dailies managed to adapt their appeal so that people continued to find them useful , and advertisers therefore went on providing the essential economic base for most of them . |