Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 2 | But the site prepared to let me work , to carry on then as s they ma and I would n't claim my pension until I 'd finished . |
| 3 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 4 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 5 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 6 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 7 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 8 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 9 | more cunning stuff going on here as well . |
| 10 | Further development work is going on even as the pilot progresses . |
| 11 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 12 | The shelling of the Muslim village of Konjevic Polje forced the soldiers , members of the 9th/12th Lancers , to look on helplessly as women and children were killed and injured . |
| 13 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 14 | You are still fleeing from the past , though , behaving like a trained poodle , moving on rapidly as your mother taught you . |
| 15 | I think the rule should be you should move on soon as you win one , I think . |
| 16 | He hung on desperately as it staggered two-legged across the road and then , screaming , turned and galloped into the woods . |
| 17 | She hung on tightly as the pole veered violently round . |
| 18 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 19 | Mind you Woody is getting on now as er |
| 20 | This assumption appears to be one that children take to heart very early , and rely on extensively as they acquire the meanings of their first language . |
| 21 | Gianni and Ursula leapt on just as the doors were closing , but Monique , who was now a few yards behind them and whose movements were hampered anyway by her arthritis , was left standing there as the train moved out . |
| 22 | She would not let herself be diverted ; she would go on exactly as she had planned . |
| 23 | Such philosophical arguments can go on endlessly as is the nature of philosophy . |
| 24 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
| 25 | True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual . |
| 26 | She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person . |
| 27 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 28 | The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path . |
| 29 | Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him . |
| 30 | Danny Kaye , Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland looked on blankly as he sifted through the books . |