Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . )
2 A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men .
3 Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike .
4 The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know .
5 As Trevor is self-employed and intends to carry on working beyond the usual retirement age , he 'll receive his payout just when he needs it — with cash to spare , helping towards the world cruise that he and his wife had always promised themselves .
6 ‘ Some even have to carry on sleeping in the same bed — back to back in angry silence .
7 In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies .
8 The general idea , using these methods , was to carry on recording until a quota sample of sixteen people in each area had been filled .
9 Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future .
10 He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High .
11 The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water .
12 There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents .
13 After further discussion , a similar exercise was carried out based on the RI category , with the results also indicating that most internal information storage and transfer needs were met within the EPH in an effective manner .
14 Regression analyses were carried out based on the results of both otoscopy and tympanometry but only those for otoscopic findings are reported to avoid repetition .
15 The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals .
16 Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree .
17 Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule arranged by the laboratory , standardized as to place and , as far as possible , time .
18 The ultimate criterion for the presence of pollution in law , in contrast with other more familiar forms of offence , is a test carried out according to the supposedly ‘ objective ’ precepts of natural scientific ( predominantly chemical ) analysis .
19 Transfection of plasmid DNA was carried out according to the method of Gorman ( 19 ) .
20 The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described .
21 Both tests were also carried out according to the manufacturers ' instructions .
22 Double stranded plasmid sequencing reactions were carried out according to the Sequenase Version 2.0 kit ( USB ) .
23 There is nothing in the Act to confer immunity on a conveyance or transfer carried out to comply with a court order , but the existence of the wife 's right to financial relief against her husband may provide sufficient value to prevent the transaction being at an undervalue within the context of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( see Berry and Bailey , Bankruptcy Law and Practice Butterworths 1987 , p294 ) .
24 The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point .
25 The ballot was carried out to coincide with a debate among Euro-MPs which also agreed to the ban in principle .
26 After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’
27 Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’
28 She could n't carry on sitting in the comparative warmth of the jeep in the middle of nowhere , in the hope that a helpful garage man — or woman ; she was n't choosy — might happen by .
29 There are 5000 collapses and blockages every year in England and Wales and , says the Water Research Centre , the number will carry on increasing in the coming decades .
30 I 'LL CARRY ON FIGHTING UNTIL THE DAY I DIE
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