Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 2 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 3 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 4 | No one ever goes on eating anything they do n't like for long . |
| 5 | Under rain that goes on drumming its rods and thickening |
| 6 | But the metaphor goes on haunting us , he wrote . |
| 7 | Peter does n't listen , but goes on lifting his big , heavy head , trying to swallow the moon . |
| 8 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |
| 9 | Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . |
| 10 | But you 're having because I think if we are going to carry on using them , these absences should be translated into suspensions , and if that there 's any problem we do know that situation pertains . |
| 11 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 12 | All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands . |
| 13 | O K , erm , premiums are stopped for er , if you ca n't afford to carry on paying them , the premiums are stopped , and your fund is continued up until the p , the point where the charges exhaust the funds , providing it 's over a thousand pounds . |
| 14 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 15 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 16 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 17 | The reason Scottish Equitable is proposing this deal is because it is short of the necessary capital needed to carry on growing its business . |
| 18 | I do not want to have to found a Royal College of Ships ' Surgeons to carry on practising my brand of general practice . |
| 19 | And we both know just how much I 'd like to carry on doing it , so do n't tempt me to start ! ’ |
| 20 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you want to go on kissing me ? ’ |
| 22 | For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being ? |
| 23 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
| 24 | I take it you 're agreed that we ought to go on expanding our hotel interests , right ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll be OK for you to go on seeing me there . |
| 26 | Again more mildly , she added , ‘ I wish I could forbid you to go on seeing her . ’ |
| 27 | The mere fact that Penry Vaughan wished to go on seeing her , however few and far between their meetings , did wonders for her self-esteem . |
| 28 | I owe it to him to explain what 's happened between us , to get his permission to go on seeing you . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd want to go on seeing you a lot , though . ’ |
| 30 | To cater for all susceptibilities , the party became the " National Unionist Association of Conservative and Unionist Associations " — a decision that allowed some local parties to go on calling themselves Conservative , but the name " Liberal " was at last dropped . |