Example sentences of "carry on [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night . |
| 2 | The pioneering work started at North Road by Mr Wolfe is still carried on today by the Railway Preservation Society . |
| 3 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 4 | If the s69(2) relief is not applicable , it will be essential to have a majority of foreign trustees and for the general administration actually to be carried on ordinarily outside the United Kingdom if the trust is to be an overseas trust for CGT purposes . |
| 5 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 6 | Very few dancers could carry on physically beyond the age of thirty . |
| 7 | It should be stressed that they should carry on normally during the observation period ; it is simply the time when the specified behaviours are recorded . |
| 8 | While clearly pointing out that these moves do not ensure women 's rights , and that the struggle for women 's liberation will carry on long after the setting up of an independent Palestinian state , Women 's Committees are encouraged by these developments and determined to learn from the mistakes made by women involved in other national liberation struggles , for example , in Algeria , where gains made were lost after the revolution . |
| 9 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 10 | I worked the committee hard and fast , and overtime too , cutting down on the lunch break and carrying on late in the afternoon . |
| 11 | Such a policy , the court held , was improper , since a ‘ business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders . |
| 12 | Rain suggested Cobalt carried on well past the Jonquil so that anyone arriving at the boat would not see the car and guess they were there . |
| 13 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 14 | The competition started yesterday and carries on today with the final tomorrow . |
| 15 | For this purpose I draw on a wide-ranging survey by John Lyons , which carries on naturally from the analysis by James Harris that I have just quoted . |