Example sentences of "go on doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 2 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 3 | Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . |
| 4 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 5 | We 've provided a grammar school education for the people of this area for 700 years and intend to go on doing so . ’ |
| 6 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've got to go on doing the horses , idiot , until they go . |
| 8 | It may be that the lovely weather will go on even after the hall is pulled down , in which case we can meet out of doors , but we ca n't expect to go on doing that when autumn and winter comes , can we ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'm quite willing to go on doing it . |
| 10 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 11 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 12 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 13 | I have n't the nerve , I Just encourage people to go on doing what they 're already doing anyway . |
| 14 | Services should n't assume that because relatives cope silently they want to go on doing so for ever . |
| 15 | He meant to go on doing so . ’ |
| 16 | Do you work all day , and are you likely to go on doing so ? |
| 17 | Half of America 's rubbish dumps break the law , but are allowed to go on doing so , for the same reason . |
| 18 | Lucie was all set to ignore the command — to go on doing what he was doing . |
| 19 | It was still new to him and he wanted to go on doing it . |
| 20 | Silly really to go on doing what you 'd always done , she supposed . |
| 21 | Lizzie wanted to go on doing it . |
| 22 | I intend to go on doing that as long as he wants me . |
| 23 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 24 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 25 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 26 | Are you going on doing locums ? ’ |
| 27 | Once installed , he wrote , it will start to do its work , and it will go on doing it , in the day-time , in the night-time , in the midst of visitors and in the empty silence , when the mausoleum is open to the public and when the mausoleum is closed to the public . |
| 28 | Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’ |
| 29 | Whatever the readers ' perception , Le Monde is changing and will go on doing so for some time to come . |
| 30 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |