Example sentences of "were carry [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hundred thousand ducats were to be brought ashore at Saltash , while at Fowey the Spanish sailors themselves helped to unload two pinnaces of twenty thousand gold reals , which were carried to Place House before forwarding to London . |
| 2 | The Serbs fired two artillery shells as the helicopters landed and sporadic firing continued as the wounded were carried on board . |
| 3 | Witnesses said camping vans were carried down river ‘ like toys ’ - with people inside screaming for help . |
| 4 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 5 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 6 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |
| 7 | The Cadillac ‘ La Espada ’ exhibited at Earls Court in 1955 had tail fins moulded out of its flanks while the exhaust pipes were carried in rocket motor nozzles . |
| 8 | One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets . |
| 9 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |