Example sentences of "carried on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Feeling somehow cheated , but also extremely relieved , we carried on along the trail
2 They carried on down the lane towards a farm .
3 These were their topics and subjects of discussion , carried on without the need of speech .
4 As her friends left the city one by one , she carried on at the Hotel Normandie in spite of the declining trade .
5 He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’
6 So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department .
7 5.7.3 Without prejudice to the generality of the above to comply in all respects with the provisions of any statutes and other obligations imposed by law or by any byelaws applicable to the Premises or in regard to carrying on the trade or business for the time being carried on on the Premises It may be that clause 5.7.1 should , in certain circumstances , have the following proviso added : except where such compliance is within the ambit of the Landlord 's obligations contained in this Lease Almost all leases will contain a tenant 's covenant to comply with statutory obligations , which could involve fairly substantial capital expenditure .
8 They carried on to the foot of the garden where there was a small neat wooden gate with a hedgerow on either side .
9 After another battle with the gate they carried on to the end of the lane and walked on to the road and into the sunlight .
10 Instead of turning left towards the village they carried on to the right .
11 The doctor switched it off and carried on with the work in hand .
12 Hertha Ayrton carried on with the experiments during her husband 's absence in America in 1893 and subsequently became the leading authority on the subject .
13 Undismayed , Aarau carried on with the building of the Laurenzenvorstadt to house its responsibilities as the capital of the canton .
14 Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit .
15 For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God .
16 I ignored him and carried on with the cocktail party .
17 Thereafter we carried on with the hearing of the argument on whether Thorpe J. was or was not right to make the order which he did in the different circumstances which then existed and as to the more general issues raised by this appeal .
18 In July 1831 notice was given that the partnership agreement between Peregrine Phillips senior , John Thorne , and Peregrine Phillips junior , was dissolved with respect to Phillips junior , although his father and Thorne carried on with the business .
19 Back in the kitchen , Carolyn gave Annie a saucer of currants to eat ( she ate them so beautifully , one by one , held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger , her other fingers cocked like a tea-sipping lady ) and carried on with the food .
20 This chap came out and carried on with the beat .
21 I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed .
22 And she carried on with the arrangement she was making , cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude that charitable thought represented .
23 Dad knew it was no good arguing with her and he carried on with the job .
24 When we were alone in the room , she carried on with the repair job .
25 I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there .
26 When I went in , I carried on into the kitchen without taking my coat off , put the kettle on and then went into the living room .
27 They carried on into the marquee , where eight ten-foot-long buffet tables decorated with pale pink and white angelicas held dozens of silver tureens , filled to capacity with imported smoked salmon , lobster , and finely sliced fillet of beef in aspic .
28 And er then I carried on in the woodlands then , cutting trees down and erm sawing up too .
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