Example sentences of "carry [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’ |
| 2 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 3 | Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant . |
| 4 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 5 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
| 6 | They had just simply and totally fallen out of love with each other , and like the devout Catholics they were , carried on as a pretence . |
| 7 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 8 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 9 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 10 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 11 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 12 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 13 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 14 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 15 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 16 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 17 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 18 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 19 | Perhaps the chemical-sensitive patient is like the miner 's canary , carried along in a cage to detect dangerous accumulations of gas in the pit . |
| 20 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 21 | This instrumentalism would be carried over into a principle of differential rewards according to the hierarchy of office , in which prestige , privilege and power would be isomorphic with one another . |
| 22 | The competitive spirit that had the branches trying to out-do each other 's fancy dress outfits carried over into a Karaoke competition . |
| 23 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 24 | In her statement to MPs , Mrs Bottomley said the reforms would be carried through by an implementation group , and a London initiative zone would make sure the reforms cover the most deprived areas of the city . |
| 25 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 26 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 27 | Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher . |
| 28 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg . |
| 29 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 30 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |