Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in the tragedies these villains are never satisfied : Macbeth goes on killing like some automaton , Iago goes on destroying until he has brought everyone down . |
| 2 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 3 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 4 | If one had not been inclined to before , one had to go on reading after this : ‘ Take three thrillers on a series of long-distance air journeys . |
| 5 | ‘ So we have to go on meeting like this , ever watchful , always circumspect in our behaviour when in company so no one will suspect — ’ |
| 6 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 7 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 8 | What girl would want to go on working amongst those unfortunates when they could have the comfort of Timothy 's home ? " |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 11 | Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another . |
| 12 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 13 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 14 | And you 've all seen and probably participated in the scene where a sequence of such meeting is brought to its climax by one partner coming right out with the movie cliché ‘ We ca n't go on meeting like this ’ or less effectively ‘ Long time no see ! ’ |
| 15 | But he admitted : ‘ I believe that unemployment will go on rising for some time yet , but what is certain is that the measures I have taken will assist the employment situation . ’ |
| 16 | They could go on living in this flat they both loved . |
| 17 | Mummy and I — we love each other of course , but we just ca n't go on living like this any longer . |
| 18 | You ca n't go on living like this , scared to death . |
| 19 | There was no way she could go on existing like this indefinitely . |
| 20 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 21 | What 's more , he 'll go on improving for some time because he was a late starter at 24 and he is still developing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 23 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 24 | If the weather went on deteriorating at this rate there 'd be plenty of the latter around Gullholm . |
| 25 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 26 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 27 | For to the very last absurd minute , the combatants went on shooting at each other , as if they could not resist one last battle , as if the front line and the war had become inseparable from their own lives . |
| 28 | You 'll die if you go on screaming like this , and I hope you will ! ’ |
| 29 | You 'll kill yourself if you go on drinking like that . ’ |
| 30 | And go on hunting through those boxes . |