Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries .
2 " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year .
3 In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services .
4 Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy .
5 Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball .
6 In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left .
7 Mrs Hillaby , the first woman to hold the post , is at least the fourth generation of the family to carry on the tradition .
8 If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future .
9 Edward Stanton 's elder son , William , who was master mason to the Mint , attempted to carry on the sculptors ' yard , but was declared bankrupt in 1735 .
10 I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence .
11 Catherine and Davidson were left in his office to carry on the conversation , and while Davidson was finding her some more coffee , Catherine turned the photograph on John McLeish 's desk to look at it .
12 Scream out James , come here a minute and , and you cou you could use it just to carry on the conversation .
13 Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners .
14 The temptation to stay in town for a curry or a Schwarzenegger film , or both , can seriously disrupt that urge to carry on the journey up the 277 summits .
15 Does he have the vision and political nous to carry on the changes begun — but certainly not completed — by his predecessor ?
16 For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three .
17 Officially , the bike route ends here ; more experienced cyclists may care to carry on the ascent to the Krimml waterfalls .
18 Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili .
19 There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard .
20 But Ministers ' fear that , as the Bill prepares to enter the House of Lords next week , attempts by arch Euro-sceptics Baroness Thatcher and Lord Tebbit to carry on the fight will fuel a damaging Tory rift .
21 The editor of a newspaper owned by a Trust will be ‘ forced ’ to carry on the newspaper 's tradition .
22 If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle .
23 If my information is helpful to Eliot , who apparently has the energy to carry on the struggle against the new overlords , then he is welcome to it .
24 Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign .
25 But Francis replied : ‘ With the squad I 've got , I 'm happy to carry on the way we are .
26 So we ca n't use the funds in our balance sheet , simply to carry on the way we are , we have to change .
27 There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing .
28 God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world .
29 Protesters have vowed to carry on the demonstrations despite the fact the tour has been given tacit approval by the African National Congress .
30 After travelling back south by barge , the pair have driven down to Tasmania to carry on the circumnavigation where they left off .
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