Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 3 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 4 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 5 | ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates . |
| 6 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 7 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 8 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 9 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 10 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 11 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 12 | Erm , that carried on for a while , I thought I was doing very very well , being able to do a job like that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The rains carried on for Music at Oxford 's other major event , the Radley Fireworks . |
| 15 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 16 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 17 | carried on for a while realized in the end he had to come back |
| 18 | ‘ Please do n't bother , ’ he said nervously , envisaging himself carried off for criminal libel . |
| 19 | THE LATEST opinion poll , a comprehensive survey of 10,000 voters carried out for the Press Association news agency , last night gave Labour an eight-point lead over the Conservatives . |
| 20 | The inspection is similar to that carried out for the Structural Survey , however because the report is in a standard format , the information conveyed is more concise and limited in order to identify the more important defects , bearing in mind the property 's type and age . |
| 21 | A survey of 295 property inheritors carried out for it by the Housing Research Foundation confirmed that two-thirds of inheritors promptly sold the houses they were left , whereas 22% moved into them . |
| 22 | ( ’ Canny ’ is echoed in the findings of a Gallup poll carried out for Shell last autumn which revealed that 60 per cent of Scottish motorists said they would buy a diesel car , compared to the national average of 49 per cent ) . |
| 23 | The company believes that 40 per cent of company cars will be diesel within the next few years , following Gallup research carried out for Shell Oil U.K. |
| 24 | This paper explores the social policy contexts of prevention , as developed in a research study carried out for the Department of Health ( Hardiker et al . , |
| 25 | The close links between the two continued , with dyeing carried out for both at Stanley . |
| 26 | the assessment of speaking and listening should , where possible , be informal , continuous and incidental , applied to tasks carried out for curricular purposes ; |
| 27 | Thus drainage schemes , carried out for the express purpose of intensifying agriculture , converting land from grass to cereals , and ‘ rationalizing ’ hedge and ditch systems , may create further drainage problems in their turn . |
| 28 | Of the half million tests carried out for regulatory purposes in the year up to June 30 , 1989 , we are pleased to report that 998 out of 1,000 met the strict specifications of the European Community Directive . |
| 29 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 30 | The kind of practical tasks they carried out for the sufferer were of course very variable . |