Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 2 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 3 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 4 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 5 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 6 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 7 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 8 | Craven Terrace had lost its C , and she scurried along fearing the steel-black swoop of huge birds plucking her high into the air to drop her like a snail and scoop up the pulp . |
| 9 | He kept on remembering the good bits , that was the trouble . |
| 10 | A team of top American managers , who have taken over running the 97-year-old firm , are now its only hope . |
| 11 | The problem which arose over finding the right dress for Miss Humby 's appearance has been amply described in Ada McGeer 's book of personal memoirs which she has entitled ‘ Oh Call Back Yesterday , Bid Time Return ’ , wherein she describes fully her frantic but successful efforts to secure Miss Humby 's dress from a Vancouver shop . |
| 12 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you are booked in to Black Sail Hut Youth Hostel and the weather puts you off completing the main route , you can make a circuit around Crummock Water before crossing Scarth Gap . |
| 15 | My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it . |
| 16 | However , this is the 3-inch drive peculiar to Amstrad products , and you would be better off paying the extra £35 for a discount Atari ST . |
| 17 | Yeah , they 're better off paying the normal rates |
| 18 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 19 | But if you 're an individual or small business buyer , then you 'll probably be better off taking the following steps to make sure purchasing your computer is a painless as possible . |
| 20 | When excited by heat or light , the stable part splits off leaving the desired fragment . |
| 21 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation . |
| 23 | In the Commons , the Energy Minister Tim Eggar said the government was prepared to go on funding the current redundancy terms available to miners until April next year . |
| 24 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 25 | Love , pride , and foolishness combined to make him keep on wearing the green coat , however . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Else thee 'll end up scrubbing the bloody step like me . ’ |
| 28 | Backspace allows correction , carriage return or line feed terminates the process , while a decimal digit character is translated and the decimal number built up using the elementary formula |
| 29 | For example , if an offline system were designed which destroyed all offline copies when bringing a module back online , then there is a possibility that files could be lost if the system crashes immediately following the restore before the online version had been safely backed up using the normal VMS system back-up procedures . |
| 30 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |