Example sentences of "why do [pron] go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 2 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 3 | Yes why did he go on to speak about this |
| 4 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 5 | Why do they go on ? |
| 6 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So why do I go on expanding the company instead of putting up my feet and shooting the breeze ? ’ |