Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 32 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 33 | In fact , it will only just have begun — because we will need to go on working hard to sustain that achievement . |
| 34 | ( Except for one Harvard undergraduate who held the world record , and seemed able to go on springing forever . ) |
| 35 | She had the feeling that if she could get Eddie to go on talking long enough , there was a chance that something significant would emerge . |
| 36 | I told him I wanted to go on to work afterwards , nut really I needed thinking time to try and figure him out . |
| 37 | I do n't want to go on stringing together stirring quotation . |
| 38 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 39 | We 've provided a grammar school education for the people of this area for 700 years and intend to go on doing so . ’ |
| 40 | Services should n't assume that because relatives cope silently they want to go on doing so for ever . |
| 41 | He meant to go on doing so . ’ |
| 42 | Do you work all day , and are you likely to go on doing so ? |
| 43 | Half of America 's rubbish dumps break the law , but are allowed to go on doing so , for the same reason . |
| 44 | He should not , for one , be asked to go on carrying heavily laden trays . |
| 45 | He simply wanted him to go on sitting there . |
| 46 | ‘ I wanted to go on playing here but life is too short to sit around doing nothing . |
| 47 | She is going to go on behaving beautifully and so I shall be forced to behave like a pig to establish the difference between us . |
| 48 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 49 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 50 | The boundaries laid down followed fairly closely those of the perambulation of 1300 . |
| 51 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 52 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 53 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 54 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |
| 55 | Pat swiftly turned away . |
| 56 | The ones listed below give more detailed information about social security benefits . |
| 57 | But change only comes slowly . |
| 58 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 59 | A few people got terribly carried away , leaping up to voice their guilt at John being kidnapped and saying that it should have been them . |
| 60 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |