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 . |