Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it goes on moving in a straight line , rather than in circles , followed from what Descartes described as the immutability and simplicity of the conserving operation . |
| 2 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 3 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 4 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 5 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 6 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 7 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 8 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 9 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 10 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 11 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 12 | He twisted and squirmed and kicked the air and went on yelling like a stuck pig , and Miss Trunchbull bellowed , ‘ Two sevens are fourteen ! |
| 13 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 14 | Krasner outlived her husband by nearly 30 years and went on working as a considerable painter in her own right until 1984 . |
| 15 | He went on thatching in a kind of dream . |
| 16 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 17 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 18 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 19 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 20 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |
| 21 | I mean I go off cleaning in a pair of tracksuit bottoms and her er |
| 22 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 23 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 25 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 26 | What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house . |
| 27 | For he lets the barber cut his hair too short and goes round looking like a convict for a fortnight . |