Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you carry on going to church ? |
| 2 | Miss Lamb , of Marton , Middlesbrough , said she would carry on fighting on behalf of all the investors . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she 'd sob , thinking about the heroine , and she 'd get undressed so that she could carry on crying in bed . |
| 4 | I gave him a fair price for it , and I have let him carry on trading in smack . ’ |
| 5 | It might well be something that is very important to you to maintain , even if you ca n't carry on working through illness . |
| 6 | If the House were to follow Palmerston blindly , they ‘ might as well give up talking about science and art and the beautification of the metropolis ’ . |
| 7 | Mike McClennan , the St Helens coach , conceded Wigan looked title certainties , but he added : ‘ We must keep on winning in case they slip . ’ |
| 8 | So really you can actually avoid not coming into contact with it , but , two years ago , just really everywhere you walked there 'd be someone dealing or whatever , so you could n't really avoid it . |
| 9 | Only then should you set about researching in order to fill your speech out , make it interesting , witty , or whatever style of speech you would like to make . |
| 10 | ‘ Did your brother go on living at home ? ’ |
| 11 | Then , years later , when he bought his own table ( and a house big enough to put it in ) , and we started playing regularly , almost weekly , we wondered whether we should go on playing for money . |
| 12 | A hell of a roar went up in the canteen at lunch break when one of the shop stewards said that Clasper would go on fighting on behalf of the workers until every bloody one of them had lost their jobs . |
| 13 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 14 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 15 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 16 | Most support for people who can not manage daily living without help comes from families , friends and neighbours rather than from the various formal services . |
| 17 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 18 | ‘ You could end up playing with fire . ’ |
| 19 | Some countries impose a fixed fee ( e.g. , the United States , where actual costs incurred by U.S. Marshals can vary enormously depending on travel distances involved ) , others seek to recover actual charges levied by , e.g. , a huissier , and others will in practice make no charge , especially where the state of origin is known to operate a similar policy . |
| 20 | Now Bright wo n't go there according to Radio 5 . |
| 21 | The densities of water application may vary considerably according to category of goods and storage height and it is therefore important to predict both the highest category of commodity and storage height likely to be used during the reasonable life of the building . |
| 22 | There was controversy in the second-century churches whether a Christian could be a magistrate or bear public authority , activities which might require apparently compromising with idolatry or condemning criminals to execution . |
| 23 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 24 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 25 | Sometimes I would wake up weeping with frustration and despair . |
| 26 | I do n't want to feel , let me push down thinking by eating . |
| 27 | So I would lie upstairs drifting from pain to the drugs . |