Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue .
2 Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal .
3 So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her .
4 We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us .
5 ‘ It is impossible to carry on when your boss is undermining you , ’ he told colleagues .
6 The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire .
7 ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was .
8 Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Yes , ’ he said deeply , ‘ we would have had to carry on as we were .
12 A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't .
13 you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ?
14 It 's quite a strange thing to paint on because it 's a very absorbent surface and what happens if you wa , those of you who want subtle colours , well that 's fine cos you get very subtle colours if you want deep colours like black dark brown or a bright colour like bright red berries on the holly then we have to put varnish on alright ?
15 A well-planted 30″ tank , with an open area in the front where a flat stone is placed , will usually induce the fish to use the stone to spawn on where they are easily accessible for photographing .
16 The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great .
17 The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great .
18 and the next night he 'll be kipping and the other one I 'll be working and that 's how they used to go on and it eventually , that 's why it was ten English worker 's to one Japanese because of that reason
19 And sixty is a bit much I think but if she you know if you want to go on and you 're really happy you can do anything you like with these thirty six and twenty four no problem there then go on and try sixty .
20 er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be
21 We 're not going to be able to go on as we are .
22 I should have liked to go on as we were , but nothing goes on , even for a short time , without making the kind of decision which was , in this case , clearly impossible .
23 Things can not be allowed to go on as they are .
24 These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started .
25 My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’
26 I shall certainly set the police on you if you continue to go on as you are doing . ’
27 They wo n't be able to go on if we do n't rest . "
28 It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language .
29 He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community .
30 ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did .
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