Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " 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 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 4 | Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mrs Hillaby , the first woman to hold the post , is at least the fourth generation of the family to carry on the tradition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scream out James , come here a minute and , and you cou you could use it just to carry on the conversation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Officially , the bike route ends here ; more experienced cyclists may care to carry on the ascent to the Krimml waterfalls . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The editor of a newspaper owned by a Trust will be ‘ forced ’ to carry on the newspaper 's tradition . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 22 | But Francis replied : ‘ With the squad I 've got , I 'm happy to carry on the way we are . |
| 23 | So we ca n't use the funds in our balance sheet , simply to carry on the way we are , we have to change . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After travelling back south by barge , the pair have driven down to Tasmania to carry on the circumnavigation where they left off . |
| 27 | Margaret Llewelyn Davies was adamant that in no circumstances would the Guild surrender its independence and the branches raised sufficient funds to carry on the Guild 's work until a compromise was reached four years later . |
| 28 | Is it threatened , or do sufficient financial and manpower resources become available to carry on the thrust of research ? |
| 29 | The deed authorises the bank to appoint a receiver and manager of the company 's undertaking , with power to carry on the company 's business . |
| 30 | Community groups are now being trained to carry on the work started by AREPP . |