At City Hall, business proceeded yesterday more or less the way it always does.

Some authors would follow them, if business proceeded in the usual way.

"It is a little less frustrating because business is proceeding in a much more logical way," he said.

But, for the rest, let no man ask History to explain by cause-and-effect how the business proceeded henceforth.

Then again, what better way to catch her by surprise than to pretend that business was proceeding as usual?

"Still the business of this committee, which today is particularly serious business, cannot proceed properly if you do not tell the truth."

In the great court of the abbey the usual business of the day proceeded.

Then, as a former senator, he entered the Chamber, where the business of the day was proceeding in a desultory fashion.

How else are we going to get the awkward paramour out of the way so business can proceed?

But she only sighed and nodded, a signal that the terrible business could proceed.