Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A recent experiment in America showed that people of normal weight might start eating at a reasonably rapid pace at the beginning of a meal , when their hunger is at a peak , but this eating rate will steadily slow down as the meal progresses . |
| 3 | You simply can not plough down as you might do in deep , wet snow . |
| 4 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 5 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 6 | Retirement seems fashionable this season : next to go is Interleaf Corp CEO David Boucher who will hang around as chairman but give up his CEO role to company president Mark Ruport . |
| 7 | The conversations of the ‘ Lunatics ’ , as they were called , would often carry on as they took advantage of the moonlight to find their sometimes uncertain way home over the ruts and rubbish in their path . |
| 8 | If you ignore these new impulses , your subconscious will assume you were not really serious about changing , and will carry on as before . |
| 9 | Trying to ‘ carry on as usual ’ during this critical phase is likely to set up conflict , and can be a way of trying to evade the realities of birth . |
| 10 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
| 11 | If companies have to pay much , they may carry on as usual , and the cost of repairing the drains may exceed the revenue that charges bring . |
| 12 | He strode off in his usual busy fashion and left us to ‘ carry on as usual ’ . |
| 13 | Quite difficult to ‘ carry on as usual ’ , I thought . |
| 14 | If either were run over by the proverbial bus , his replacement would carry on as before . |
| 15 | We 'll carry on as best we can . |
| 16 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
| 17 | Inherent competitive weakness in a state/local sector coalition may break down as some local firms seek advantage by alliance with foreigners . |
| 18 | If species were indeed fixed , then their state of adaptation to the environment would gradually break down as the conditions were changed by geological forces . |
| 19 | Oh well why do n't they just bring down as well you know might as well . |
| 20 | All existing records would be broken , and profits would flood in as the rich skiing culture flocked to resorts with the new hypersnow . |
| 21 | The plane 's wing was damaged on impact and Mr Treweek saw the tail break off as he swam ashore but the pilot managed to land the plane safely on the beach . |
| 22 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority has said that groups can team up as long as they have no more than 25 per cent of the total independent television advertising market . |
| 23 | that one will break up as well , |
| 24 | He can do the lot and he can grow up as well , fifteen and he 's be playing at being zombies |
| 25 | The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher . |
| 26 | It was evasive about why IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard did n't show up as licensees but it 's obviously expecting their announcements by and by . |
| 27 | In contrast , the privately rented , multiple-occupied flats of affluent young professionals in parts of Inner London ( e.g. Camden or Kensington and Chelsea ) would show up as deprived on several of the standard Census-based indicators . |
| 28 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |
| 29 | I 'll keep on as long as I can . |
| 30 | Recurrent attacks are common and may follow on as soon as one week after the end of the primary attack . |