Example sentences of "as [pron] be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 2 | ‘ One day I asked her a question as I was getting on , and she just smacked my face … |
| 3 | they always come just just as I 'm getting on and getting well luckily enough I got me me lounge done first thing this morning . |
| 4 | From the age of about six months , your baby will enjoy splashing and kicking in the bath , as long as you are holding on to her . |
| 5 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 6 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 7 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 8 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 9 | Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser opened the bowling and both started as they were to go on . |
| 10 | The week began with great success as everybody was getting on well , the weather was good and all activities were running according to plan . |
| 11 | And it would seem that in this matter of dispersals the book ‘ trade ’ is a more honourable calling than the so-called library ‘ profession ’ , at least as it is carried on by its present avant garde . |
| 12 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 13 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 14 | To what extent do you think that the creation of , of all these as it were structures on |
| 15 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 16 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 17 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 18 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 19 | If that is starting again , it is as bad as what is going on in Mogadishu . |