Example sentences of "carry on [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 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 15 | ‘ You did n't exactly carry on like a pacifist yourself , ’ she retorted evasively , mouth reproachful . |
| 16 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 17 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 18 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 19 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 20 | He had had enough of carrying on at a snail 's pace . |
| 21 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 22 | Ministers are a bunch of desperadoes , and they are carrying on like a bunch of stoneheads . |
| 23 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 24 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 25 | From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door . |
| 26 | The demanding role meant Crawford had no understudy to begin with , so he carried on with a wrist cast , and Onna White changed the choreography to allow for this . |
| 27 | Erm , that carried on for a while , I thought I was doing very very well , being able to do a job like that . |
| 28 | carried on for a while realized in the end he had to come back |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |