Example sentences of "on [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 2 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 3 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 8 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 9 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 10 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 11 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 15 | Novell has no compelling reason ( nor should it have ) to keep on paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame . |
| 16 | Strangely , it was decided that a repeat investigation was not required and I was allowed to go on caring for the patient throughout her stay . |
| 17 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 18 | And erm and then like , he went back in after we 'd finished playing and me and Scott carried on playing for a bit and then erm what was he going ? |
| 19 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 20 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 21 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 22 | Your Committee will , of course , go on working for the continuation of the Line , but we need your help and your influence — GO BY TRAIN , TRAVEL ON THE HEART OF WALES LINE . |
| 23 | 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 . |