Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 2 | Proposals were carried for the creation of " broad committees " , " Leagues of Young Chartists " and similar groups to attract those " who will not go all the way with the Minority Movement " . |
| 3 | The crown of St Wenceslas and the sacred coronation oils were carried to the High Altar from here too . |
| 4 | Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year . |
| 5 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 6 | And the boards were carried onto the drop plate and knocked out . |
| 7 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 8 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |
| 9 | Fifteen ships of the line , caught by the flood-tide , were carried into the unprotected bays of Cherbourg and La Hogue , where , on Sunday 22 May , Russell at last caught up with them . |
| 10 | The ground was split and vast chunks of rock were carried into the sky by the rising tide of magic . |
| 11 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 12 | Under the codename Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ twenty-four Hurricanes and twenty-six pilots were carried towards the island on ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 13 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |
| 14 | FRCN Kaduna 's Hausa current affairs programme Alkawari Kayane had reports directly from its own correspondent in Minna which were carried in the FRCN programme being relayed there by Radio Niger . |
| 15 | In answer to the problem I set myself ( reports of which were carried in the provincial press in 1980 ) , a certain Mr A. Hatton of Birmingham wrote : ‘ If you visit some of the pubs , clubs and places of enquiry , you will get the solution to your enquiry … just speak to the majority of working people , blacks do not have the intellect or inclination for academics ’ ( personal communication , 12 June 1980 ) . |
| 16 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 17 | These included two Mae Wests from Don Bennett 's Halifax , a section of one of the specially-adapted naval mines that were carried by the Halifaxes , various flying helmets , a leather flying suit and a rudder from Lancaster L7572 ‘ L ’ . |
| 18 | The march was headline news : " Women overcome terrorist attack " and banners calling for " Peace and Work " and " Forward Women — the fight is on " were carried by the marchers . |
| 19 | Perhaps memories were carried by the very macromolecules themselves ? |
| 20 | A few caskets were carried from the docked ship , each bearing upon it a stasis box wrapped in a yellow banner embroidered with fanged skulls , protecting the precious Progenoid organs . |
| 21 | The first were carried from the Maldive fisheries by Arab traders and reached West Africa by way of the Red Sea or Zanzibar , crossing the continent overland . |
| 22 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 23 | The small town came to a standstill as the two coffins were carried from the family home on Markethill Road . |
| 24 | Three swords and two sceptres were carried before the English king at his coronation in 1189 : the sceptre with the cross probably signifying power and justice , the sceptre with the dove , equity and mercy , while the three swords may have been associated singly with authority , mercy and justice . |
| 25 | Number Ten had captured the tactical unit ; Francis Tite 's genius was to carry off the strategic one . |
| 26 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
| 27 | Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element . |
| 28 | Coal for the mill 's steam engine was carried up the steep hill on donkeys . |
| 29 | A granite rock was carried up the mountain but over the next 120 years parts of the inscription did get broken away ; the climate at 2,700m can be very severe . |
| 30 | ‘ I was carried off the pitch at the end — to be received like that was one of the best feelings I 've experienced in my life . |