Example sentences of "if he [vb past] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to watch the actor he would replace for signs of strain or imminent collapse and wonder nervously whether he could actually remember the lines if he had to go on . |
| 2 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 3 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 4 | But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’ |
| 5 | But of course he never did speak with his tongue nor ever would have done if he wanted to hang on to his job . |
| 6 | Tom was intelligent and cultivated , but there was a feeling that he was out of place in the organisation if he wanted to get on in it . |
| 7 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |