Example sentences of "[vb pp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 2 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 3 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 4 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 5 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 6 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 7 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 8 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work . |
| 10 | His widow , Mrs Mercy Rimer , has carried on the tradition these past few years , but this season will be her last . |
| 11 | Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll . |
| 12 | As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control . |
| 13 | The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure . |
| 14 | No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet . |
| 15 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 16 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 17 | The largest single load ever carried on the tramway was this boiler transported from Bispham to Rigby Road in March 1925 . |
| 18 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 19 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 20 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 21 | A bar will also be carried on the train . |
| 22 | By 1942 Greenly was in ill health but still carried on the family model-engineering business . |
| 23 | And how are the weights carried on the weight cloth ? |
| 24 | Tiphook Piggyback System Demonstration — This new innovative system will be actively demonstrated explaining how road vehicles can be successfully carried on the railway . |
| 25 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 26 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 27 | They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course . |
| 28 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 29 | In retrospect , the techniques that have given molecular biology its pace have hung on the principle that life , which has evolved the manipulative techniques by which it is itself sustained , must also embody the techniques for which laboratories cry out . |
| 30 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |