Sentence examples for carried on doing from inspiring English sources
He nodded politely and carried on doing what he wanted.
Even when we conceded, which has been a problem in the past, we carried on doing our jobs and kept our standards".
I simply carried on, doing a not very good job of seeming to cope; and because no one asked the questions, I kept shtoom about how I was screaming inside.
While the post-Jamie BBC makes ever more desperate stabs at reinventing the TV cookery format with risible series like The Best, Rhodes has carried on doing what he always did: cooking food which, in its careful selection of ingredients, and its understanding of its British context, makes an awful lot of sense.
They would listen to my suggestions and say, "Yes, we'll do everything you say, Sarah", and then carried on doing what they wanted to do anyway.' What Beeny didn't know then was that the powers that be in television land had decided the show wasn't working.
The twilight world of deception and self-deception reminds one of the moles in John le Carre's novels, and of the confused double agent in Tom Stoppard's radio play The Dog It Was That Died who confesses to his control: 'I've forgotten who's my primary employer and who is my secondary... just carried on doing what I was told, and one day, not very long ago, I started thinking about my retirement.
