Example sentences of "it carried [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 With an effort of will he tried to stop it but it carried on trembling .
2 It lasts for around five minutes and you ca n't work out exactly what it 's selling , but it leaves you wishing it carried on for hours .
3 ‘ There was great concern over whether the BA board could be found guilty of trading while knowingly insolvent if it carried on .
4 The avalanche was so enormous that it carried on travelling uphill on the other side of the valley .
5 Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude , it carried on , sinking fast .
6 In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England …
7 It carried on William Cary 's optician 's business after his death ( 1825 ) until c .1853 .
8 Roads were blocked and gardens were swamped but it carried on raining .
9 Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes .
10 So really man 's costume changed very little , and in fact , apart of the cut of the jacket , and the type of hat you wore , it carried on right up to the present day .
11 It carried through , under Clement Attlee as Prime Minister , a wide range of reforms and established a framework of government and welfare which survived unchallenged until the 1980s .
12 In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition .
13 The Stock Exchange has dismissed a disciplinary charge against market makers Smith New Court which arose when it carried out an £80million ‘ programme trade ’ for fund managers Ivory&Sime a year ago .
14 The government-backed Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is to investigate the issue after it carried out a review of 50 recent reports on the longevity of CDs .
15 But in January 1990 Medirace secured its future in a spectacular way — it carried out a reverse takeover of the much larger Evans Medical to form a new entity called Medeva .
16 In the same year , under a maintenance budget , it carried out full-scale dredging on 279 miles of river .
17 Eventually it carried out a more temporary repair , costing £500 000 , which entailed replacing 30 of the 113 wooden piles .
18 So , in his will , he directed that an envelope he had deposited with the firm should be opened after his death and the instructions he had given in it carried out .
19 One memorable flight was made by N240 in August 1931 , when in company with Short Singapore II , N246 , it carried out a Middle East cruise .
20 It carried out a survey of the noise and vibration likely to be caused by the construction of the project and concluded that noise and vibration would be ’ unlikely to have a major impact . ’
21 The Provisional IRA has admitted that it carried out this mass murder .
22 By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression .
23 Australia has agreed to pay the government of the Pacific island of Nauru a total of A$120 million ( £50 million ) as recompense for the environmental damage wreaked by 90 years of phosphate mining , most of it carried out while Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trusteeship .
24 The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad group has admitted it carried out the bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in which eleven people died .
25 The UFF later said it carried out the killing , claiming their victim was a member of the Provisional IRA who had taken part in coffee jar bomb attacks on security forces .
26 Other victims it carried off were the acid Mrs Friar in Forres and old Jan van Meers in New Zealand .
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