Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The transformer unit , when Zener stabilized , goes on dissipating full power .
2 At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it .
3 Of course , you will need to go on taking basic fire safety precautions even when smoke alarms are fitted in your home .
4 Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services .
5 You who must decide whether you are prepared to go on allowing dangerous aggression to mar life for all of us .
6 to go on opening quiet flowers to the wind
7 But London hotels can not expect to go on charging high prices when they can not even be bothered to welcome guests in their own language .
8 Robertson ( 1986 ) also argued that big companies and the public sector can not afford to go on employing large numbers of people , as the cost of co-ordinating their activities rises and as pensions become more expensive .
9 This in turn generates a need to go on making new perceptions and associations in a way that is recognized both in animals and in man ( Humphrey and Keeble , 1976 ) .
10 Then , in addition , it decided it must limit local authorities ' powers to go on increasing local rates .
11 The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education .
12 At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA .
13 Nurses were going around putting white bandages on bruised heads , and painting iodine on open wounds .
14 I stand outside and watch the girl going round asking other people for money .
15 An enchanting picture book by Ian Beck , The Teddy Robber , £6.95 is a wonderfully funny story of a giant who 's lost his teddy bear so he goes around stealing other teddies from wherever he can .
16 Most of the extra £12m that the government is giving towards implementing the new deal will go on funding new consultant posts , leaving individual units to fund the new support staff , such as phlebotomists , electrocardiography technicians , and clerical staff .
17 However , Lindsell believes that nurturing their individual marketing and technological strengths will guarantee that they continue to thrive and go on generating major cash for C&P .
18 At the same time he must go on reassuring other parties — some of whom bloody-mindedly reject negotiation — that their views will be heard .
19 A woman with long white hair wearing a loose , black dress went on plaiting bright strands of silk ; a young , dark man in a sleeveless jerkin continued to bend over the sketch book in which he was drawing .
20 A further £73,000 went on repairing other damage from fires , almost all of which were started deliberately .
21 Herbert told me that his government , saddened by so many post-war feature films in which heroic Allies and horrid Nazis went on refighting old battles ( to me no more than the modern equivalent of cowboys and Indians ) was much impressed by the non-partisan nature of my films and books , and intended to give public expression of their approval .
22 In 1989 some half of the £8.8 million thus raised went on training future clergy , the rest on a variety of projects including the running of General Synod itself .
23 He went on making different things — sets of harrows he used to re-lay .
24 They did not go out giving intellectual addresses saying : ‘ Come to our seminar and we 'll discuss the epistemological significance of the empty tomb .
25 You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often .
26 My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends .
27 I 'm not suggesting players should go around collecting yellow cards , but you must have players who are going to get stuck in for you when the going gets tough .
28 And on the whole they did n't go around poisoning roast geese .
29 You ca n't go around poisoning intelligent creatures . ’
30 If he would go around pinching other people 's food !
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