Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet her belly , in spite of her defeat , goes on filling with new life . |
| 2 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 5 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 6 | Unemployment now is set to go on rising to 3.3 million . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ So we have to go on meeting like this , ever watchful , always circumspect in our behaviour when in company so no one will suspect — ’ |
| 9 | They show that institutions of higher education have the capacity to go on developing as self-critical corporations . |
| 10 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 11 | Charlie Francis is guilty of a sporting crime — of that I am sure — but what about the guilt of those in high officialdom who have allowed the situation to go on growing for 20 years without trying to stop it ? |
| 12 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What girl would want to go on working amongst those unfortunates when they could have the comfort of Timothy 's home ? " |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 20 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 21 | When we were six to two on evening patrol , to be truthful , we used to go out looking for drunk and disorderlies — just to stop the bloody boredom . |
| 22 | All of these things encouraged the movie moguls to put their faith back into entertainment , to make good movies , and to go out looking for new and bigger audiences . |
| 23 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |
| 24 | 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 ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | They could go on living in this flat they both loved . |
| 27 | Mummy and I — we love each other of course , but we just ca n't go on living like this any longer . |
| 28 | You ca n't go on living like this , scared to death . |
| 29 | On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ? |
| 30 | Since we can not go on struggling with one another indefinitely , Hegel says that one must submit to the other . |