Example sentences of "carry [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends talked the matter over far into the night and then went home , to their families or to the loneliness of dingy bed-sitting rooms , to carry on the debate in diaries and notebooks , poems and letters . |
| 2 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 3 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 4 | But you wo n't be infectious and most people are able to carry on just as normal . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we intend to carry on recruiting , towards 40,000 members , and beyond . |
| 6 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |
| 7 | None the less , the consensus in the General Assembly will give Mr Perez de Cuellar scope to carry on behind-the-scenes negotiations with all sides in the conflict , to agree to a UN peace plan . |
| 8 | It will also decrease the likelihood of catching hardened computer criminals by turning informers into criminals , and allow computer manufacturers to carry on selling insecure computers for applications where they should not be used . |
| 9 | Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball . |
| 10 | Her son has a small business , and he does n't know if he will be able to carry on . ’ |
| 11 | She knows from home that many trains do not run because thousands of peasants have not been paid for hauling wood to the engine fuel-dumps for the whole of 1920–1 , and so have refused to carry on . |
| 12 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 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 | A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 16 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 17 | The Lelands stayed to carry on their work but friction quickly developed and , four months after the take-over the Lelands quit . |
| 18 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 19 | All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands . |
| 20 | I got to carry on . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to carry on wearing navy myself , ’ he adds , somewhat unnecessarily , as we discuss the newly-expanded spectrum of his professional palette . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's report says : ‘ The attractions of granting a licence , as a shield against accusations that the Department had — with the knowledge that the partnership was unlicensed — allowed them to carry on taking investors ’ money , were allowed to cloud the thinking within the Department . ’ |
| 23 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 24 | It was really exciting just to carry on and get involved in making an album — get on the road . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 27 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They will cut their claims to an amount which can roughly be covered by the bank 's remaining assets of $2.8 billion while allowing it to carry on operating . |
| 30 | But Mr Kohl , usually underestimated in his eight years as chancellor , has never looked more firmly in command or keener to carry on . |