Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 2 | She could n't carry on sitting in the comparative warmth of the jeep in the middle of nowhere , in the hope that a helpful garage man — or woman ; she was n't choosy — might happen by . |
| 3 | There are 5000 collapses and blockages every year in England and Wales and , says the Water Research Centre , the number will carry on increasing in the coming decades . |
| 4 | I 'LL CARRY ON FIGHTING UNTIL THE DAY I DIE |
| 5 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 6 | You got ta carry on driving down the road . |
| 7 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
| 8 | I believe that they are extant throughout Europe and that our ancient villages did not just grow up according to the ribbon development and river crossing theory of geography , but conform to a larger , geometric pattern . |
| 9 | And in the long term , as Keynes might also have said , we will keep on worrying about the short term . |
| 10 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 11 | But still , erm and of course you miss and ta erm got ta keep on running up the stairs |
| 12 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 13 | The reasons for this phenomenon is as follows : firstly , each lender has its own system of calculating gross interest and secondly , when base rates rise or fall , lenders are at liberty to delay or hurry up passing on the benefits/bad news to their customers . |
| 14 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 15 | It is simply and solely a political problem which politicians , political parties and Governments must set about solving through the political process . |
| 16 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 17 | We would go on loving in the same old way … |
| 18 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 19 | Er I 'll go on to explain in the product range one of their new products we 're introducing this year . |
| 20 | They just let you go on buying on the never-never . |
| 21 | With a sinking heart , she also realised that she must go on living with the Ward family , at least for now . |
| 22 | So it was agreed that while Mrs MacDonagh would go on looking after the two youngest Milligans during the day , Dermot , Fergal and Mike , the eldest brothers , would take over as soon as they were back from school . |
| 23 | What did you go on to do after the business folded ? |
| 24 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |
| 25 | Now it will go on to compete for the title of best pig in Britain . |
| 26 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |
| 27 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 28 | If , on the other hand , gases continue to escape while the lava is being erupted , bubbles will go on growing in the lava , and these will be preserved in the rock when it cools . |
| 29 | ‘ By the late eighties the global plans of the major US multinationals will have created a massive UK trade deficit of around seven billion pounds which will go on increasing with the growth of the number of vehicles in use . |
| 30 | I could n't go on speculating on the might have-beens of Stavanger 's life , for there was work to do . |