Example sentences of "was carry [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Number Ten had captured the tactical unit ; Francis Tite 's genius was to carry off the strategic one . |
| 2 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coal for the mill 's steam engine was carried up the steep hill on donkeys . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | After Charlie was carried off the aircraft , it was unable to even taxi and I had to be towed off the runway . |
| 9 | Town 's Roger Charles was carried off the field following a crunch and tackle just following this , but the score remained at two each , so the final result ; Harefield United two , Abingdon Town two . |
| 10 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 11 | She was carried down the drive by her grandmother and rushed into the lounge to play with her toys , with a bonfire night cake waiting for her . |
| 12 | I was carried at a smooth lope by Trigger , or sometimes Silver . |
| 13 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
| 14 | The motion was carried despite a plea by Alfred Caldecott to give ‘ private enterprise the chance first ’ . |
| 15 | The glider circled the escarpment and was carried with the warm air currents into the upper atmosphere . |
| 16 | Emergency regulations insisted upon immediate burial , and her body was carried to a cemetery outside the town . |
| 17 | Other authorities cited to us strongly suggest that this is not a good plea unless the earlier case was carried to a conclusion . |
| 18 | Here also the opening and copying of letters was carried to a high level of professionalism . |
| 19 | He was carried to the truck . |
| 20 | As her coffin was carried to the grave , Ol' Blue Eyes sang the line : ‘ Start spreading the news , I 'm leaving today . ’ |
| 21 | Even in China where the working of jade was carried to the highest pitch of sophistication the lapidaries continued to rely on abrasion for working their material . |
| 22 | They watched as the casket was carried to the mouth of the tomb . |
| 23 | Tallis had seen the grimacing features as she was carried to the grave . |
| 24 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 25 | In pre-Christian times it was carried as a charm against witchcraft , a notion which survived long after the arrival of Christianity . |
| 26 | The hilt of a hiranu , the short sword of Manchu manufacture which was carried as an alternative to the jusei , peeped from his waist sash . |
| 27 | The coffin was carried into a small sitting-room and Gabriel was left alone with it . |
| 28 | As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies . |
| 29 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 30 | The aldermanic principle was carried into the new county councils , and there were other indications that power would not easily be dispersed : ‘ the provisions for decentralisation … were whittled away , and in the end very little was left of the grand scheme of devolution ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:207 ) . |