Example sentences of "carry on [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 2 | In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies . |
| 3 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 4 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 5 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 6 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 7 | I 'LL CARRY ON FIGHTING UNTIL THE DAY I DIE |
| 8 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 9 | You got ta carry on driving down the road . |
| 10 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 11 | CARRY ON LOVING ON THE CAMPUS |
| 12 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 13 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 14 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 15 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 16 | After a bit I get bored and carry on walking up the street . |
| 17 | The breakthrough in this version is that you can combine a live chart within a spreadsheet display and carry on working on the spreadsheet without having to switch modes . |
| 18 | He turned to look at me as I approached , then carried on tending to the cows . |
| 19 | Kelly carried on looking over the books but his heart was n't in it . |
| 20 | Chris , Nick and I carried on working under the umbrella of the Friends of John McCarthy . |
| 21 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 22 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 23 | They carried on walking round the side-shows . |
| 24 | However , instead of driving the chair into the lumbering reptile , which would stop her impetus , she sidestepped , jumped past the creature and carried on running to the door . |
| 25 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 26 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 27 | He carried on racing after the war and in 1946 , at the age of 54 , won the Albi Grand Prix . |
| 28 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |