Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protective designation is therefore likely to be needed for sometime to come , and will need both strengthening and transforming into positive schemes of practical management . |
| 2 | Either he could hang about drinking and flirting and achieve nothing , with the risk of embarrassment if Fedorov arrived , or he could try the direct approach . |
| 3 | He knew there was no antidote to white phosphorus , the material would carry on burning and penetrating the vile flesh , as it would his own . |
| 4 | Well , with all the trussing the might carry on trussing and get that done . |
| 5 | Many , although black , will grow up believing or wishing that they are white . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , Kelly , I know you 're still upset about your father 's death , but if you want to play detective , you 'd better give up riding and join the police . |
| 7 | The smoking minority should be entitled to choose whether and when they will give up smoking and to take short smoking breaks during work time . |
| 8 | When are you gon na give up smoking and save some |
| 9 | He had said he would give up freelancing and get a regular job on a trade magazine or something . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll bring back hanging and do something to get rid of all those blacks , ’ said the lady . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Keevill explains how , with a little imagination , you can create somewhere inviting and intimate to eat and entertain |
| 12 | Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment . |
| 13 | But if the universe is really completely self-contained , having no boundary or edge , it would have neither beginning nor end : it would simply be . |
| 14 | Both of you experience a series of cardiovascular changes which can induce either blushing or blanching , caused by the now-familiar hormones — adrenaline , noradrenaline and dopamine . |
| 15 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 16 | He would live in an attic and wear threadbare clothes provides he could go on seeing and making movies ’ . |
| 17 | The kitchen seemed dark and cheerless and Hari wondered how she could go on living and working in a house that held so many memories . |
| 18 | You can go on learning and adding to your repertoire of behaviours for as long as there is breath in your body . |
| 19 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 20 | So you could go on reviewing and reworking the problem . |
| 21 | With your help we can go on improving and offer you even better service . |
| 22 | In Pakistan , ‘ if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position , standing and talking to boys , people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves — ‘ Where is her modesty ! ’ or , ‘ what is going on there ! ’ |
| 23 | Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise for another 18 months and they are acutely aware that fear of unemployment could hold back spending and delay any economic recovery . |
| 24 | People say that if I get a couple of days off I should go out driving and find some big old manor to stay in . |
| 25 | It 's the only way they can go around harassing and criminalizing black kids and think they 're doing a good job . |
| 26 | How can a teacher best go about selecting and designing effective learning material for their own classes ? |
| 27 | I 'll go round looking and see |
| 28 | And they should come down cleaning and helping you like and making you something to eat like . |
| 29 | Folklore has it that any economic revival starts in the housing market as homeowners and would-be homeowners decide they can put off moving or buying no longer . |
| 30 | He knew , deep down , that this was something to do with Barry Moxton and the murder , but he did n't wake up sweating and shaking the way he used to when he was younger . |