Example sentences of "carry on [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to all the customers and offered to carry on delivering for threepence a week . |
| 2 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 5 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 6 | The only exception to the ban will be linseed — which farmers can carry on burning for another three years because its fibrous stalks are difficult to plough in . |
| 7 | But she 's noticed among her friends that women carry on trying for much longer . |
| 8 | Carry on protesting for Soviet refusniks ! |
| 9 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 10 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 11 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 12 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 13 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 14 | Tycoon Ivan Leech carried on selling for cleaning-aids company Kleeneze despite his secret fortune . |
| 15 | And erm and then like , he went back in after we 'd finished playing and me and Scott carried on playing for a bit and then erm what was he going ? |
| 16 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 17 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |