Example sentences of "carried on [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped .
2 The lease was not renewed but the partners carried on under the terms of the existing one .
3 The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval .
4 Politicking carried on within the coalitions during both world wars and the financial crisis , but in a muted , coded and generally responsible way .
5 The business is now carried on by the sons of the original proprietor who trade under the name of ‘ Joseph Wright & Sons , ’ and employ from six to seven hundred men .
6 In particular the attention of the court was drawn to clause 1 of the agreement which referred to the practice carried on by the parties as a " practice of general medical practitioners " .
7 It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals .
8 There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces .
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