Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 2 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 3 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 4 | He at once declared his intention to carry on as Prime Minister . |
| 5 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 6 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 7 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 8 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 9 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 10 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 11 | This system seemed likely to carry on through 1991 , until Brewer was injured during the early-season tour of Argentina . |
| 12 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 13 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 14 | And then erm the lads in both they had decided they were gon na go on the go slow , but they were told if you go go on the on the go slow system , you 're gon na go home , he said , I 'm not prepared to carry on with that , he said , the manager there , that 's brother that is . |
| 15 | Erm would you like to carry on with that ? |
| 16 | Contrary to her firm intention of not breakfasting with Ven , however , since he was standing by the table which was set for two when she again entered the sitting-room , she thought it would be infantile in the extreme to carry on with that intention . |
| 17 | He used to carry on with that |
| 18 | The initial emphasis of the project was therefore linguistic and , clinically examined , it might have appeared that to carry on with current curricula , making the change of language policy the only variable , would have made for more easily comparable results . |
| 19 | The company plans to carry on with all its publishing operations and to open up new lines of activity . |
| 20 | ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’ |
| 21 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 22 | ‘ And try to carry on with this truce ? ’ |
| 23 | I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor . |
| 24 | We decide to carry on past this bawdy nightmarish jewel . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought Mum was much too old to carry on like that . ’ |
| 26 | Well he 's going to carry on like that is n't he ? |
| 27 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 28 | The doctors said they did n't know how I managed to carry on in such pain . ’ |
| 29 | To begin your career with a book as wonderful as The House of Mr Biswas , and to carry on in such an unflinchingly individual way to produce a wonderful sardonic book like The Enigma of Arrival , is quite remarkable . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |