Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , this could n't go on … this living in the past . |
| 2 | He did that because they had not only annoying his neighbours , sorry , their neighbours , because he had once been one of our neighbours , but also they had damaged his house , and they had already cost him probably about two hundred pounds in repair bills until the house itself , broken doors , window erm the wall , and bit of the roof and so on , and there was every reason to believe that this would just carry on . |
| 3 | ‘ This ca n't go on much longer , ’ the Poles hopefully assured the Germans . |
| 4 | This ca n't go on . |
| 5 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I said to myself this ca n't go on , you have to admit it to yourself you have a problem . |
| 7 | This ca n't go on forever . ’ |
| 8 | This ca n't go on ! ’ |
| 9 | This will also bring on a much earlier crop as well as a damage free one . |
| 10 | So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat . |
| 11 | But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter . |
| 12 | However , this can not go on forever : there comes a stage when nuclear fusion to produce yet heavier elements requires energy , rather than producing it . |
| 13 | Clearly this can not go on ; hence the reason the union , almost as soon as the 12-club leagues are in place , is wondering whether and how to reduce them again . |
| 14 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 15 | From then on she came to the surface more ; it was n't long before she said to him , ‘ This can not go on , have n't you anything better to do than being my chauffeur all day ? ’ |
| 16 | So that we really do hope that when the news comes through today , it 's going to be positive and the international community , if I can put it this strongly , will have come to it 's senses and said this can not go on , we must have a more representative political presence at the U N. |
| 17 | Well there 's that one in the paper , I 'll have that one , that 'll probably go on longer that Tetley tea one mm |
| 18 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , that ca n't go on . |
| 20 | That ca n't go on . ’ |
| 21 | That will not go on much longer . |
| 22 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 23 | Look I cut the cap off and that wo n't go on . |