Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year .
2 She said she intended to carry on with her TV work , but in jobs with less rigorous commuting schedules .
3 Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and
4 Determined to carry on with her education , Judy got herself a tutor for her English , and went to the local college to do maths .
5 Mrs Critten has an invalid husband , so is unable to get out and about very much , but thanks to Denise and Julia she is able to carry on with her Machine Knitting .
6 She 's got to carry on with her career and she 's got to carry on with being a mother , both of which she takes very seriously , ’ he said .
7 He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work .
8 Changez stood there looking out of the window and scratching his arse , completely ignoring his father-in-law , who had no choice but to carry on with his explanation .
9 ‘ If you want to carry on with your job . ’
10 Having her gave me strength , I do n't mean that in a ‘ strong woman ’ sense , but a drive , an immense determination to carry on with my work . ’
11 If there were n't new and interesting things worth saying I would n't bother to carry on with my work
12 ‘ So I decided to carry on with my knee heavily strapped .
13 When we do so , I intend to carry on with my job , which has agricultural connections .
14 That evening Valeria and I discussed the problem of whether to carry on with our mission or not .
15 Last Thursday was supposed to be such a practical lesson , but when we got there Mrs Glen told us that we 'd have to carry on with our writing topic .
16 British Aerospace worker Leonard Phillips , injured in a terrorist bomb attack on a tourist bus in Egypt , defiantly carried on with his holiday yesterday after leaving hospital in Cairo .
17 She provides a lopsided interpretation of Freemantle 's report that on her death bed the poet expressed concern for her father and asked that the subscription be carried on for his sake :
18 He will carry on from me , perhaps , as I have carried on from my father .
19 Besides those things which a partner is actually authorised to do by the terms of the partnership , any other of his acts which would be part of the usual conduct of a business of the type carried on by his firm will also be binding .
20 Nonetheless every partner will have a right to know what is being carried on in his firm 's name and for which he is ultimately answerable .
21 He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house .
22 Nevertheless , the parents of the 1920s were the children of the 1900s and the inhibitions of that more rigid decade were carried over into their parenthood .
23 As Bellamy says , ‘ East St. Louis , Belleville , the chip on the shoulder , the bond with mother and grandmother that carried over into his career , the move to the West Coast … what emerged was a great player and one of the toughest , roughest competitors the game has ever known ’ .
24 Rather more in line with British cinema 's future disdain for anyone outside the middle classes is Williamson 's Two Little Waifs ( 1905 ) , in which two adult gypsies are left to the flames while their daughter is carried off to her convalescence in a suburban garden .
25 When Ivan the Terrible felt himself drawing near to death , we are told , he would have himself carried up to his treasury .
26 The final result can also be carried back into whatever program you were running before you used the calculator and is printed at the current cursor position .
27 Together , they underpin rather than oversee the disciplines they serve , and reliance upon them can be so complete that procedures simply can not be carried out without their aid .
28 Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made .
29 As a result of the extensive research we have carried out into its introduction , we too are convinced that Lafayette will be a major success story . ’
30 Early in 1990 , the Mellors had major structural work carried out at their home because of subsidence .
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