Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fascinated with his new discovery he went on experimenting and then found he was also arching and narrowing his back . |
| 2 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |
| 3 | Financial assistance out of public funds should be available for every individual ( not corporations ) who , without it , would suffer an undue financial burden in properly pursuing or defending his or her legal rights ; |
| 4 | Maneka Gandhi , India 's former Environment Minister , accused the G7 countries of " keeping the Third World on the debt/poverty hook , whilst vastly over-consuming and polluting themselves " . |
| 5 | This served two purposes , firstly the importance of the problems was diminished when they were written down ( even the most depressed person could not resist a smile when they wrote down some of their worries — somehow they looked silly on paper ) and , secondly , it enabled them to delete items on the list when the problems were solved , thereby proving that most problems were capable of being solved . |
| 6 | She was passionately attached to Wyndham Lewis and advised all young artists ‘ to go on boozing and wasting ’ because they were such odd creatures . |
| 7 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 8 | However the ANLT system is very fragile , computationally demanding and unable to deal with much naturally occurring language . |
| 9 | The first mineral to crystallize is usually olivine , which carries on crystallizing as the magma cools until a temperature is reached at which a second mineral , pyroxene , begins to appear , and then , as the temperature drops still further , these two continue to crystallize together . |
| 10 | Go on then , you can carry on singing but you 're a bit late . |
| 11 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 12 | The other machines went on circling and dodging as before . |
| 13 | On 14 December 1989 , she visited the Casa Republicii for the last time and expressed alarm on seeing that one of the decorative features of the stairways leading to the southern entrance of the palace had the image of a cross when seen from high above . |
| 14 | He looks annoyed , but then on seeing that the victim has the only chair , he curbs his irritation . |
| 15 | He would live in an attic and wear threadbare clothes provides he could go on seeing and making movies ’ . |
| 16 | But since the marriage split was announced in March , he has carefully avoided seeking out the company of other women , and has concentrated instead on seeing as much of his children as possible . |
| 17 | He kept on firing until he could see each individual rope on the net , then hauled the nose up and vaulted the balloon , realizing as he did so that if it caught fire now he would be fried . |
| 18 | We 've had er callers earlier on suggesting that there could be problems between Russians and Lithuanians if an goes there , which seems almost certain it will now . |
| 19 | This is something I 've suggested before , something I keep on suggesting because it 's all I can think of . |
| 20 | I forgot about him and carried on eating until , half an hour later , my girlfriend realized that her handbag had disappeared . |
| 21 | Push , push it back there , then you can carry on eating if you want to , then you can sit there |
| 22 | We feel we can go on eating and drinking and living for today , just mildly titillated by guilt . |
| 23 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 24 | ‘ You have to be competitive to keep on competing but I try to instil the value of the social side of it in my dancers . |
| 25 | But now , here was Beryl vigorously maintaining that her father had ‘ worked it all out — planned it move by move ’ . |
| 26 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 27 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 28 | Many people make the mistake of basing their calculations on their current commitments and expenditure , without properly realising that some of their requirements will change . |
| 29 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 30 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |