Example sentences of "[vb past] carried [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 2 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 3 | Grollet said a laboratory in Utrecht had carried out a second test on 14 September and that , too , had been positive . |
| 4 | They had carried out a large number of ferrying and bridging operations , in addition to the more usual Engineer jobs of demolitions and dry bridging using the Medium Girder Bridge . |
| 5 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 6 | Once a people had been colonialist , the working class would continue to be colonialist even after they had carried out a revolution . |
| 7 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 8 | Colorado-based Miniscribe filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1990 when it emerged that its senior management had carried out a massive fraud . |
| 9 | While all this had been going on , Steve had carried out a thorough inspection of the locomotive , had oiled up the axle boxes and attended to the brake gear . |
| 10 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 11 | However , by the time the CPAG came to give evidence to the Select Committee it had taken on board the idea of women 's financial dependency in marriage and had carried out a survey to discover the extent of mothers ' dependence on family allowance for their own and their children 's survival , irrespective of the level of their husbands ' earnings . |
| 12 | A Georgian parliamentary commission which was established to investigate the incident later concluded that the interior troops had carried out a ‘ punitive action — a planned mass massacre , committed with especial cruelty ’ . |
| 13 | Brunel had carried out a survey at about the same time and submitted proposals for a broad gauge line linking up with the Hereford , Ross and Gloucester Railway . |
| 14 | It was then that Chuck had carried out a quick examination of the unconscious Grant , to ascertain the extent of his injuries . |
| 15 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 16 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 17 | Previously the Central Bank had carried out a series of devaluations of the new cruzado , which on its introduction in January 1989 had exchanged at near equity with the United States dollar . |
| 18 | The ULFA , a Maoist group which had risen to prominence in 1990 , controlled large tracts of upper Assam and had carried out a series of assassinations , kidnappings and bomb attacks . |
| 19 | Serbia had carried out a partial mobilization of the JNA reserve in Serbia on Sept. 28 . |
| 20 | The Croatian Defence Council of Herceg-Bosna claimed on Oct. 20 that Ejup Ganic , a member of the presidency in the republic , had carried out a coup against Izetbegovic assisted by the army . |
| 21 | He had carried out a deliberate act causing unnecessary suffering and cruelty . |
| 22 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 23 | At their trial , the judge is believed to have added 25 per cent to each sentence specifically because the police had carried out the attack while operating in their official capacity . |
| 24 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |
| 25 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 26 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 27 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 28 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 29 | He had carried out the killing . |
| 30 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |