Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] carrying out " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was carrying out my examination I would quite casually discuss recent events . |
| 2 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 3 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 4 | She was flown immediately by helicopter to Hillsborough Castle in County Down where she was carrying out the only engagements of the visit , a lunch party and a garden party for 1,200 people on a day Ulster was swept by torrential rain . |
| 5 | If we were carrying out , no well I always need to get right . |
| 6 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 7 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |
| 8 | He used to travel around all the other cells to make sure they were carrying out their objectives . ’ |
| 9 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |
| 10 | They were carrying out top secret radar research . |
| 11 | For , in truth , humble flagman Ken Evans and race starter Captain Keith Brown both with years of successful racing experience behind them were carrying out their duties according to the book , as they and others like them have done without criticism in the past . |
| 12 | Ward 's voice was flat as though he were carrying out an official enquiry . |
| 13 | The company formed to explore the sunken liner said it was carrying out the search with the French Institute for the Research and Exploitation of the Sea . |
| 14 | David Quelch of Buntingford , Herefordshire , admitted using the device to remove fish at a pit in Haddenham , Cambridgeshire without consent but claimed he was carrying out a health check on behalf of the owners . |
| 15 | He was carrying out a routine inquiry when his hand was severed by a Samurai sword . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , he was carrying out his own investigations on the carcasses of horses which led to the publication in 1884 of his The Anatomy of the Horse — a Dissection Guide , followed in 1889 by The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals . |
| 17 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 18 | On appeal he was found not guilty because he was carrying out a normal procedure approved by the medical profession . |
| 19 | Addressing Liverpool Crown Court , Miss Coltman : ‘ He said he was carrying out operations at the hospital . |
| 20 | Raid terror : A brave caretaker was shoulder-charged to the ground after he disturbed three young burglars - one aged just 12 as he was carrying out his rounds at the City of Liverpool Community College . |