Example sentences of "and go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen 'em putting the notices up and goin' round knocking on doors , ’ my assailant told him . |
| 2 | We need to listen — and to go on listening — to the Bible and to later spiritual writers and preachers ; we need to give due weight to tradition and also to try to discern the movement of the Holy Spirit in our own time . |
| 3 | But her sister begged her so hard not to leave her and to go on sleeping with her that she gave way . |
| 4 | All of these things encouraged the movie moguls to put their faith back into entertainment , to make good movies , and to go out looking for new and bigger audiences . |
| 5 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 6 | The beggar is plainly moved , and goes on looking curiously at Howard for some moments after he has walked on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For he lets the barber cut his hair too short and goes round looking like a convict for a fortnight . |
| 9 | Olly goes round , and goes round going , wheelchair ! |
| 10 | He comes in and goes round talking to anyone and everybody and everybody hates him . |
| 11 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 12 | ‘ Why the hell ca n't we have some proper light in here ? ’ he complained as he strode in , snapping on the electric lights and going round dousing the candles . |
| 13 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is , I believe , this same ‘ sthenic spur , ’ or determination to survive as a self-defined individual , which causes the anorexic to reject suicide — another form of surrender — and to choose the more arduous life of self-starvation , not in order to die , but in order to live and go on living . |
| 16 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better get back and go on listening . ’ |
| 18 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |
| 19 | We do n't dress up and go out dancing . |
| 20 | who is willing to correct you and go on correcting you |
| 21 | Hell , it did n't even have to do anything ; it did n't have to act on prayers or have us singled out as a special species , or play any part in our history and development ; it did n't even necessarily have to have created us , or created anything , all it had to do was exist and have existed and go on existing , to record , to encompass . |
| 22 | We hear from before birth and go on hearing continuously all the time . |
| 23 | Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years . |
| 24 | Please thank them all very much , and go on using the barn for as long as you like . ’ |
| 25 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 26 | Never even crossed my mind that Hurley would carry on like nothing had happened — that he 'd keep Eurame open and go on using the pipeline . |
| 27 | So tuck , slip and lace I 'd need to move the left point cam , to start with , to between needles 2 and 3 on the right ( and go on moving it following the decreasings ) . |
| 28 | and go on holding |
| 29 | We gaze and go on gazing |
| 30 | I 've read about it , you do exercises and train yourself , and then when the time comes you pop behind a bush and reappear with the baby slung on your hip , and go on toiling in the paddy-fields as if nothing had happened . " |