Example sentences of "they carried [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 2 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 3 | They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake , seed corn , manure and farm fertilisers . |
| 4 | A SOLDIER who supplied transport for two younger youths intent on burglary , and kept watch for them as they carried out a theft , was fined over £300 by Alton magistrates on Tuesday . |
| 5 | POLICE discovered used syringes in the bedroom of an Alton man as they carried out a search of his home . |
| 6 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 7 | They carried out a survey monitoring our telephone techniques and spent some time listening to how we answered our phones . |
| 8 | ‘ I first noticed them when they carried out the hospital nursery raid about three years ago . |
| 9 | Animal rights activists claimed yesterday they carried out the arson attack that destroyed the Becher 's Brook jump on the Grand National course at Aintree , Liverpool . |
| 10 | Neither did they abide by the Scottish Office guidelines ; they carried out the dawn raids and removed nine children from their homes in an emergency operation without reference to any of these documents . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |
| 12 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 13 | Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing . |
| 14 | The trial of two blackmailers who preyed on homosexuals , by threatening to publicise their activities unless they handed over money , has ended sensationally , with the two accused admitting they carried out the crimes . |
| 15 | The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them . |
| 16 | They refused to say why they carried out the operation but stressed that no-one was arrested . |
| 17 | South West engineers were called in to try and to trace the leak in the mains pipe and after identifying it they carried out the repair work on Saturday and Sunday , but while at the scene early on Friday they smelled gas , and the |
| 18 | Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting . |