Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 3 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 4 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 5 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 6 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 7 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 8 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 9 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 10 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 11 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 12 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 13 | They carried on walking round the side-shows . |
| 14 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 15 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 16 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 17 | You got ta carry on driving down the road . |
| 18 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 19 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 20 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 21 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 22 | The waves were crashing down rising into the air , then crashing against the water below , spreading the beach with a white spray . |
| 23 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 24 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 25 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 26 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 27 | Kelly carried on looking over the books but his heart was n't in it . |
| 28 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 29 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 30 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |