Example sentences of "carry [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it was newspaper speculation that the ‘ courting couple ’ were about to get married that convinced Jason it was time to turn the tide in favour of something nearer the truth and gently let everyone into their secret that it was just one big publicity stunt which , once started , was easier to carry on with than deny , and far more profitable in any event . |
| 3 | Only the first was achieved before the collapse of the Society and it was left to Philip Miller to carry on with instruction through his Dictionary . |
| 4 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 5 | Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group . |
| 6 | He was shaken , slightly concussed and in no state to carry on with the show . |
| 7 | This would at least have saved their deposit and left them something to carry on with . |
| 8 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 9 | During this period of numbness , people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Changez stood there looking out of the window and scratching his arse , completely ignoring his father-in-law , who had no choice but to carry on with his explanation . |
| 12 | Last Thursday was supposed to be such a practical lesson , but when we got there Mrs Glen told us that we 'd have to carry on with our writing topic . |
| 13 | If it is absolutely impossible to carry on with one 's own job or profession in spite of all possible adjustments and adaptations which can be made , there are two possibilities : ( 1 ) to use one 's skills and experience through a different channel , or ( 2 ) to retrain for something quite different . |
| 14 | Mrs Critten has an invalid husband , so is unable to get out and about very much , but thanks to Denise and Julia she is able to carry on with her Machine Knitting . |
| 15 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 16 | ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’ |
| 17 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 18 | Having her gave me strength , I do n't mean that in a ‘ strong woman ’ sense , but a drive , an immense determination to carry on with my work . ’ |
| 19 | There was still no one home so I was safe to carry on with my experiments in dressing like an adult . |
| 20 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 21 | We have been unable to carry on with our lives until now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have been unable to carry on with our lives until now . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 24 | Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties . |
| 25 | If there were n't new and interesting things worth saying I would n't bother to carry on with my work |
| 26 | Without the pipeline , or with great delay in its completion , one could see that it would be difficult for the USSR to carry on with business as usual . |
| 27 | So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives . |
| 28 | At the same time Diana 's healthy lifestyle of regular exercise , little alcohol and early nights gave her the energy to carry on with her royal duties . |
| 29 | I 'm fated to carry on with what I have to do and hope not to incur your terminal disapproval in the process . |
| 30 | I told her I was frightfully keen to carry on with French . |