Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 2 | It is her nurturing , sustaining tolerance , extended , it seems , to all the creatures in the garden , that gives the initially repulsive caterpillar permission to live , permission to carry on denuding the box thorn . |
| 3 | The review is normally chaired by an internal member of staff , often a head of department unassociated with the course ; and it may take the form of two or three meetings with the course team , enabling the course team to go on developing the course in the light of advice from the panel . |
| 4 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 5 | Says a video worker : ‘ The director kept on re-shooting the scene and Nick was getting hotter and hotter . |
| 6 | Once both sides had revealed their hands there was no point carrying on playing the game . |
| 7 | There is a big question mark over whether he 's got sufficient chemicals to produce enough kerosene to go on fighting the war . |
| 8 | When the cup was full , the abbot kept on pouring the tea . |
| 9 | His lordship went on fingering the page for a moment , leaned forward to scrutinize an entry , then said : |
| 10 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( To recoup his losses , the gambler keeps on backing the losers ) |
| 13 | Rather , it is normal for the vendor to undertake in the sale agreement to carry on managing the business in its ordinary course and not to enter into transactions outside the ordinary course of trading without the purchaser 's prior consent . |
| 14 | Already our friend Mr Cehovin , the Secretary of the Municipality , had been transferred to Padua , leaving his wife and family to carry on running the gostilna . |