Example sentences of "to go [adv prt] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By refraining from questioning I 've allowed Liza to go on living a lie . |
| 2 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 3 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 4 | It 's got to go on playing a world role . |
| 5 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 6 | ‘ Once when all the chapels and the churches were thronged and full of singing I could have stayed because the flock was here , but now I have to go out seeking a flock . |
| 7 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 8 | SINCE our feature on the subject we have had several enquiries about how to go about arranging a home birth . |
| 9 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 10 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 11 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |