Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 4 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
| 5 | So everything 's going really according to plan . |
| 6 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 7 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 8 | But he shoved them aside like inconsiderate pushers-in at a concert , and went on listening to Izzie playing her pipe or Lucie speaking the verses . |
| 9 | Animism has its own heady pleasures , however , and I went on listening to Michael Quirke and admiring wooden statuette after statuette . |
| 10 | During that time Léonie and Madeleine went on coming to France in the school holidays , just as they always had . |
| 11 | Trevor went on talking to Derek : ‘ The Luctians preserve Vascar limbs , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The review went largely according to Murrie 's specifications , with Armstrong and , from November , his successor , David Hubback , pruning the committees and Bridges and Brook handling the procedural aspects . |
| 13 | Now Bright wo n't go there according to Radio 5 . |
| 14 | Things not gone quite according to plan ? ’ |