Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " 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 | Cos it really does , it still goes on settling into the |
| 3 | Yet her belly , in spite of her defeat , goes on filling with new life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Miles Davis , now 63 , goes on developing , his most assiduous young admirer , Wynton Marsalis , goes on backtracking in search of his roots , taking other potentially excellent young players with him . |
| 6 | I hope she goes on crying until the time comes for them to wrap a shroud round her . " |
| 7 | Even when under arrest , Peter goes on caring for others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Felicity goes on staring at him in astonishment . |
| 10 | He said , love goes on happening to you . |
| 11 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 12 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 15 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 16 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 17 | Unemployment now is set to go on rising to 3.3 million . |
| 18 | Unemployment in the eastern districts was 11.1 per cent by April and looks set to go on rising until the end of the year ; by that time , a fifth or more of the labour force could be without jobs . |
| 19 | All seven expect unemployment to go on rising throughout the year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 22 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 23 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 24 | Yer know , Doll , when I was about fifty , and goin' through you know what , well this Sunday I was feelin' there was n't much left to go on livin' for . |
| 25 | A book like that , it 's a great temptation fur a journalist who knows so much he 's scared to go on livin' in his own country . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So we have to go on meeting like this , ever watchful , always circumspect in our behaviour when in company so no one will suspect — ’ |
| 27 | They show that institutions of higher education have the capacity to go on developing as self-critical corporations . |
| 28 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 29 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 30 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |