Example sentences of "[adv] carry on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tiphook Piggyback System Demonstration — This new innovative system will be actively demonstrated explaining how road vehicles can be successfully carried on the railway .
2 Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work .
3 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 .
4 Scream out James , come here a minute and , and you cou you could use it just to carry on the conversation .
5 There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing .
6 So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months .
7 From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head .
8 The largest single load ever carried on the tramway was this boiler transported from Bispham to Rigby Road in March 1925 .
9 Some cargo is still carried on the waterways , although mainly on the broad canals and rivers .
10 By 1942 Greenly was in ill health but still carried on the family model-engineering business .
11 In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 .
12 Gimli 's ‘ Song of Durin' at I 329–30 is dwarvishly plain and active , but still carries on the sense of decay in Middle-earth opposed to ultimate hope ; Legolas 's ‘ Song of Nimrodel ’ a little later makes similar oppositions but ends on an opposite note , of faltering and ultimate defeat on the ‘ Hither Shore ’ .
13 In the years up to 1945 , forty-eight boys learnt woodwork , tailoring , engineering and many other trades , often carrying on the work traditional to their families .
14 The tousle-haired blonde in a tiny mustard top , and sawn off denims , gives a big teasing wink , and coyly carries on the act .
15 So we ca n't use the funds in our balance sheet , simply to carry on the way we are , we have to change .
16 Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture .
17 Manager Andy Crawford , successfully carrying on the work instigated initially by Syd Millar three seasons ago , is delighted at the progress so far .
18 In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left .
19 Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore .
20 It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’
21 Mr Fagan then carried on the tradition , steering Liverpool to a championship-League Cup-European Cup treble the following year .
22 But for every anti-beer crusader , there are dozens happily carrying on the legend of Norm .
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