Example sentences of "go [adv] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 2 | Fix the date there and then , while everyone is motivated to go on talking . |
| 3 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 4 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 5 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 6 | I wanted her to go on talking , but she lost interest , turned into the butcher 's and struck up a conversation about meat . |
| 7 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 8 | I do n't think it would do any good to go on talking . ’ |
| 9 | Rain snatched an early chance to say goodnight and Ayling walked with her to the foot of the stairs , asking after people at the Post and showing every wish to go on talking . |
| 10 | She had the feeling that if she could get Eddie to go on talking long enough , there was a chance that something significant would emerge . |
| 11 | In January it was decided to go on talking but let a ’ monitoring group ’ suggest what should be done with the results . |
| 12 | I kept quiet because I wanted you to go on talking . |
| 13 | But he was going on talking . |
| 14 | Do n't all look at me , you 're supposed to be going on talking ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was damned if I was going to have people going around talking about my system as the Cherkin shit experiment . ’ |
| 16 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |
| 17 | It seemed now that perhaps " one could go on talking about human needs and problems , teaching and learning about imagination , even if all the books were burnt " . |
| 18 | With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation . |
| 19 | Ian , I wish we could go on talking endlessly about this because I find the subject quite fascinating and we have n't really talked about the details of your research . |
| 20 | Trevor went on talking to Derek : ‘ The Luctians preserve Vascar limbs , ’ he said . |
| 21 | We had talked books and Thomas and I left together and went on talking books . |
| 22 | Although sometimes Mrs Parvis talked about Dot , she rarely spoke to her , except to scold or reprimand , whereas Mrs Hollidaye went on talking cheerfully to Loopy Lil and to Dot even though neither replied . |
| 23 | A good-natured sandy-haired man , he welcomed me into his car with a smile , and then went on talking to the family sitting in the back , a young couple with a baby . |
| 24 | Staring straight ahead at the road before him , the driver went on talking , telling me of his boyhood ambition to be a footballer and of the Mafia-like behaviour of the modern IRA . |
| 25 | The others went on talking . |
| 26 | Nicholas went on talking persuasively . |
| 27 | She already felt safe in his company as he went on talking effortlessly . |
| 28 | Newman went on talking fast . |
| 29 | Nick handed it to Carrie , behind him , and went on talking gently . |
| 30 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |