Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 3 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 4 | Then he went on gazing at Thérèse , voluptuous in flowered chintz and blue ribbons . |
| 5 | We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’ |
| 6 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 7 | I thought for a while that the information would just go on accumulating from here on in , but thank God it 's already begun dropping off . |
| 8 | Rivers bear birth on slows of quicksand |
| 9 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 10 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 11 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 12 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 13 | Since we can not go on struggling with one another indefinitely , Hegel says that one must submit to the other . |
| 14 | ‘ Carry On goes in a seven-year cycle . |
| 15 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 16 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 17 | It was almost as if he had chosen this quiet tunnel in a relatively quiet station so that he could sing to himself undisturbed , carry on singing without having to admit to himself that this was a hopeless task , that he was n't going to get anything . |
| 18 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 19 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 20 | And she came to Whitfield , and she said Mr Whitfield , why is it that you keep on preaching on this , and you keep on using this text , and keep on saying you must be born again ? |
| 21 | A PRIEST carries on preaching in Hawaii — despite the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Iniki . |
| 22 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 23 | For if we have no reason to believe that any more of the debts will be paid during the intervals of peace , than have hitherto been : Nay the whole of the Sinking Fund , by such an increased debt , becoming absolutely anticipated , together with numbers of additional oppressive taxes , we have less reason to expect any of the old debts to be discharged , as we go on contracting of new . |
| 24 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 25 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 26 | Akram went on to perform in plays in English and Bengali . |
| 27 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 28 | One day , in the dim and distant future , I expect that I shall want to move into different arenas , but I imagine that I shall continue as an NCT member , not just to receive my favourite journal , New Generation but also to carry on contributing to my favourite charity . |
| 29 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 30 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |