Example sentences of "carried on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 2 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 3 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 4 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 5 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 6 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 7 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 8 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 9 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |