Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 2 | If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice . |
| 3 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 4 | Continued help in learning Spanish — I can now communicate , but still have a long way to go in fully understanding what people are saying to me |
| 5 | ‘ You 're going on tonight playing the father . ’ |
| 6 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 7 | When , and he 'll be the one going up there shouting . |
| 8 | Well I keep going out there trying to keep the leaves down . |
| 9 | Well it 's not doing much good you going out there talking |
| 10 | She 's been going around lately looking like death warmed up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 's going around mostly saying goodbye to people . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , I 'll have some brochures going around , some leaflets going round just advertizing what we do but if , I 'd like to just mention to you that erm , there are other , other treatments that we do , of course , at the salon . |
| 13 | We were going round actually looking for work , not ve very keen but we were , we were looking for it . |
| 14 | I mean I used , I used to go out there picking moon daisies , years ago . |
| 15 | yeah , I 'm tempted to go around now looking at brickwork now |
| 16 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , ‘ I do n't feel one can go on just doing the general odds and sods indefinitely without more or less destroying oneself . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't go on just standing by , you know . ’ |
| 18 | Have you seen a picture go on relentlessly developing until its whole surface is black , its celebratory moment obliterated ? |
| 19 | Far from being a zero-sum game , far from being fixed in the amount that is technically available , those in possession of academic freedom can go on continually expanding its scope . |
| 20 | No one can go on indefinitely yearning for what is not available . |
| 21 | Felix 's wife went on stoutly reading her poetry as if she were not shy , roaring to keep the beat against the Vietnamese and walking round and round the dining table in time with herself . |
| 22 | Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere . |
| 23 | Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done . |
| 24 | Tom nodded agreement , and went on rapidly assembling his camera . |
| 25 | She went on industriously compressing and releasing , but now she felt the breath of life responding to her touch , following the pressure of her hands in and out , lifting the body under her , until she was only orchestrating the performance , and signalling its progression by the measured touch of her palms and undulation of her body . |
| 26 | The clientele , however , used to the drama of Arab conversation , went on placidly reading their newspapers . |
| 27 | Old reflexes and outsider instincts , along with its army 's need for cash ( see page 76 ) , make it want to duck great-power responsibilities and go on quietly selling dangerous nuclear technologies to the Irans of the world , and missiles and other advanced equipment to rogue regimes anywhere . |
| 28 | Well we 'll go down now going to dinner , we 're going to dinner with him . |
| 29 | The uhum , C & A 's has a lot of them , went down there looking for some shoes for Amy . |
| 30 | Well this is worrying now for Forest because Cooper 's gone down again holding that shoulder . |