Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mr Rumback walked on as if nothing had happened . |
| 2 | He 'd carry on as if nothing was the matter , though some days his face was grey with pain . |
| 3 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household — and work carried on as if nothing had happened . |
| 5 | You just carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 6 | Sandy , leaning with her head on his shoulder , carried on as if nothing was untoward . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 9 | Mr Major looks set to soldier on as if nothing has happened , trusting that the improvement in the economy will restore his own , and his party 's , sagging popularity . |
| 10 | But like I said if it if you , if you do that then it 's for them and for yourself but them being up your arse is irritating if you just fucking carry on as if nothing had happened , but you 're aware of the th them doing that then I think it 's a fucking I 've that 's a psychological edge over them anyway it 's just the personalities obviously , but er |
| 11 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 12 | Gnarled old trees were drawn and modelled later on as if they were figures . |
| 13 | ‘ They go on as if they were never young and did the things we do . ’ |
| 14 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 15 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 16 | But , you know , they 're just being going on as if they are i in a position to grant |
| 17 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 18 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 19 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 20 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 21 | Another of this weekend 's conventional theses , which was anticipated here , was that of Kinnockian hubris — the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won . |
| 22 | It amused her to think she carried on as if he were n't there . |
| 23 | ‘ Grant took it on as if he did it every week and showed a wise old head on young shoulders . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 25 | But she went on as if he was n't there . |
| 26 | ‘ Most of our gear has been lost , and all your horses , ’ Finnan went on as if he had not heard him . |
| 27 | He went on as if he 'd heard nothing . |
| 28 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 29 | He explained the Shadow Scheme briefly , and concluded , ‘ Just carry on as if she was n't there . ’ |
| 30 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |