Example sentences of "[was/were] carry through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding , with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church . |
| 3 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 4 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 5 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 6 | The gamekeeper ran to the nearby camp of the navvies and with the aid of a sheep-hurdle Putt was carried through the village to the manor . |
| 7 | In the short term , de Gaulle was carried through the crisis by the personal support of Churchill ( who defended him before the House of Commons ) and by his own reserves of self-assurance . |
| 8 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |