Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 2 | Having mastered aerobatics in his little Deaky before the war , he had gained Hitler 's permission to go on bombing runs , although — boringly — only as a gunner . |
| 3 | The machine carried on producing results until it was closed down in 1969 , with some of its hardware transferred to Culham for use on an apparatus for new pinch studies , HBTX , built in 1969/70 . |
| 4 | Most of the cash went on redesigning logic devices , For instance , engineers installed circuits to filter out noise from mains supplies ; twist-wire cables are specified for data highways . |
| 5 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 6 | The brokers note that representations are being made to the Treasury to enable USM companies that switched to the Official List to go on enjoying inheritance tax relief by extending this relief to all family-owned companies . |
| 7 | It seems that the stewards at the transfer gate to the east stand carried on selling tickets to the stand long after it was obviously full . |
| 8 | Environmental regulation has focused on other forms of pollution ; only a third of air pollution expenditure goes on removing particles and most of this is spent on catching larger particles , those that are more than 10 microns in diameter . |
| 9 | Why are they allowing the ratepayers and taxpayers of this country to go on throwing money down the drain ? |
| 10 | You may meet a saddler who is the sixth generation of his family to carry on making bell harnesses . |
| 11 | My father died in 1927 , when I was seven , but Mother carried on making cheese until around 1940 . |