Example sentences of "they [was/were] carry [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 16th however eight of them were despatched to Maleme airfield , Crete , from where next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece at first light . |
| 2 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |
| 3 | But er the way they were carrying on , just lately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He used to travel around all the other cells to make sure they were carrying out their objectives . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were carrying out top secret radar research . |
| 8 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 9 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 10 | By chance , they were carried out by two of the VGA 's female managers , chief executive Siobhan Hamilton-Phillips and executive director Susan Bloch . |
| 11 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 12 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 13 | What was novel about his reforms was not so much their content as the spirit in which they were carried out . |
| 14 | I gave directions and Emily Lightbody saw that they were carried out . |
| 15 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 16 | When the men of Market Harborough died they were carried back to Great Bowden for burial , back to the country village on whose fields their town had sprung up . |
| 17 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 18 | they were carried about in . |
| 19 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 22 | The second to seventh defendants have complained to the ombudsman that such valuations made in respect of further loans to them were carried out negligently by an employee of , in the case of the second and third defendants , the Halifax Building Society ; in the case of fourth and fifth defendants the Woolwich Building Society , and in the case of the sixth and seventh defendants the Leeds Permanent Building Society . |