Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 2 | No but they know the form , you know , we ca I ca n't erm I 'm not sure and then , now I 'm learning , you know , and it 's li I 'm learning the hard way and I 've got ta carry on learning the hard way cos I ca n't break it , you know ? |
| 3 | Really , are you gon na carry on taking the those red bombers |
| 4 | Charles and Diana were anxious to stress they will carry on providing a secure and loving environment . |
| 5 | For the time being Jonathon will carry on cleaning the empty theatre in the hope that one day he 'll be on the stage and the seats will be full . |
| 6 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 7 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 8 | A teacher calling the names of pupils from a register will often do so using a level tone on each name , and the pupils would be likely to respond with yes when their name was called . |
| 9 | Love , pride , and foolishness combined to make him keep on wearing the green coat , however . |
| 10 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 11 | In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again . |
| 12 | and , and you know you could n't get a lot of money , although of course nationally , the rates of pay were governed nationally , they were going up and up and up and there was no way that we could keep pace , we could n't keep on increasing the tuppeny fare . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't mind not having a joint account , do you , darling ? ’ he said to her . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 15 | It was therefore with surprise that they saw the coach draw up bearing the Lassiter coat of arms . |
| 16 | Suppose that on the basis of the observations at T 1 , we select a group of children of low reading ability for experimental remedial education , X. Even if X is useless , a child 's performance at T 2 can not ( or is unlikely to ) deteriorate since it is already at an extreme low but , through chance variation , it may move upwards giving an overall appearance of improvement . |
| 17 | How do we set about getting the true beliefs that we need if our actions are to succeed in fulfilling our desires ? |
| 18 | How do you set about choosing the best format ? |
| 19 | How on earth does one set about devising a convincing measure of something as impalpable , though nevertheless real , as the degree of trades union militancy ? |
| 20 | Rather than risk not having the perfect shade she started buying those little sample containers and trying them out on a wall . |
| 21 | Some younger patients will need to develop this into a walk/jog sequence to get the heart rate up to the necessary level , and will ultimately take up jogging the whole distance . |
| 22 | Just as depressing , though , was the general failure of Hollywood to move on from certain basic themes and situations and there was a new realization of the industry 's tendency to just go on duplicating a successful format . |
| 23 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 24 | And the designers have built in reassuring similarities to the products you know and love , such as the ‘ Lotus Classic ’ menu option in Lotus for Windows , which lets you go on using the familiar ‘ / ’ method to bring up menus , until you get used to the state-of-the-art stuff . |
| 25 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 26 | do I go on doing the next |
| 27 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 28 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 29 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 30 | If you provide memorable highlights , people will go away feeling the whole event was good ; they will gradually forget the weak parts of the event ( though I hope you wo n't ) . |