Example sentences of "[verb] on [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 2 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 3 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 4 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 5 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 6 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 7 | Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ? |
| 8 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 9 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 10 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 11 | Hun Sen went on to call for a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Bangkok . |
| 12 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 13 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 14 | Some go on to study for a higher degree , and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering . |
| 15 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 16 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 17 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 18 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 19 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 20 | And erm and then like , he went back in after we 'd finished playing and me and Scott carried on playing for a bit and then erm what was he going ? |
| 21 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |