Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
2 | And he said , well would you like to carry on with the contract ? |
3 | When they reached Scarborough Pat , 58 , a steelworker from Middlesbrough , was taken to the town 's hospital where nurses bandaged his bruised and swollen fingers and he vowed to carry on with the journey . |
4 | A group of businessmen and politicians decided on Sept. 21 to carry on with the referendum proposal and on Sept. 26 began collecting signatures in favour of the referendum . |
5 | So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
8 | He was shaken , slightly concussed and in no state to carry on with the show . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
11 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
12 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
13 | LUCKY to be alive skydiver Terry Wakenshaw vowed yesterday to go on with the sport which killed his girlfriend and almost claimed his life . |
14 | How long are you going to go on with the farce of keeping this bloody lot in business ? " |
15 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |
16 | As he waxed into an eloquent period , he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter , a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech . |
17 | ‘ Do you want to go on with the lesson , or stand about talking all day long ? ’ |
18 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
19 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
20 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
21 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
22 | Also , the pressure on ministers to hustle along with the removal of lead may subside after a general election . |
23 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
24 | Is to sit down with the estate agent and say , Right why have you got these business on . |
25 | You need to sit down with the practice manager or whomever and say right now you 've listed all these , why , what 's peculiar about what 's particular and peculiar about these that you should say that this is a good opportunity . |
26 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
27 | Some of the skinheads I 've met admit to having ‘ gone through ’ one or other of the parties of the extreme right , but , after a brief commitment , the enthusiasm tends to lapse along with the membership . |
28 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
29 | He wanted to go in with the sun behind him . |
30 | Darlington Council refused to go along with the plan but Miss Carter has revived the campaign this week as a planning application emerged wanting to put a food kiosk in the car park . |