Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 3 | The Company got on as well with the local population as any European settlers anywhere in the world , but it was very exposed to attacks from New France . |
| 4 | The troops crack on as the storm sets in over So Kon Po . |
| 5 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 6 | A chair is taken away and the game goes on as before until only one player , the victor , is left . |
| 7 | Konstantin Rusakov , present CC Secretary for intra-bloc relations , does indeed fault the Gierek leadership for ‘ big mistakes and miscalculations … in economic and social policy ’ , but goes on as well to indict it for ‘ flagrant departures from the integral regularities and principles of building socialism ’ . |
| 8 | The company , which employs 70 staff , say work goes on as usual , the fire was confined to a storage area . |
| 9 | The net goes on as well . |
| 10 | A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't . |
| 11 | I 've just got to carry on as best I can ’ |
| 12 | Henry was the most appropriate of the three to carry on as miller as he had served his apprenticeship at Healings in Tewkesbury . |
| 13 | He was simply told to ignore bazaar gossip and to carry on as planned . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , complaints about station 1OAB competing with the commercial stations continued to plague the Ottawa board , and shortly after our decision to carry on as before , the CRBC abruptly cancelled our license to broadcast and ruled Station 1OAB off the air by the end of the month . |
| 15 | However , there is a real determination to carry on as usual . ’ |
| 16 | Looking specifically at the mid-range commercial systems marketplace , Wendler believes that by 1995 , users are likely to reach a point where the cost of implementing open systems will be less than to carry on as they are . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd have to carry on as usual or else it would look suspicious . ’ |
| 18 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 19 | So , you know , we expect erm , Penguin and A W er , Penguin U S certainly to go on and Longman to carry on as they are , improving . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said deeply , ‘ we would have had to carry on as we were . |
| 21 | He says they hope to be able to carry on as before , the kennels should be self-financing . |
| 22 | ‘ I just want to carry on as usual . ’ |
| 23 | A spokesman for the operators , Amoco , said : ‘ The weather has considerably moderated , allowing the towing operation to carry on as planned . ’ |
| 24 | Deprived of this option , Mr Lawson decided to soldier on as Chancellor of the Exchequer , claiming in his speech on Thursday that there was no alternative to his economic policy . |
| 25 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 26 | Miss X and her fiance could not afford to buy another property , so she asked Glasgow District Council to repurchase the house so that her parents could stay on as tenants . |
| 27 | Before considering how ( and how far ) these three features are actually manifested in the different positivist theories , there are two other contingent and interdependent features that Jeffery ( and Matza following him ) pick on as of central significance to the positivist programme : the shift of focus from crime to the criminal , and the quest for a universal , objective category of ‘ criminal ’ behaviour . |
| 28 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 29 | Things can not be allowed to go on as they are . |
| 30 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |