Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 2 | Her voice carried on the still air . |
| 3 | They heard the horn again , the sound of hounds carried on the still air . |
| 4 | One article , carried on the front page of the official party paper Renmin Ribao on Feb. 24 , gave the first ever positive appraisal of capitalism and called for developing a capitalist economy within China as a " useful supplement " to the socialist economy . |
| 5 | No one carried on the cheesemaking tradition in our family , although West Park Farm is still owned by the Birketts , run as a beef farm by my sister-in-law and her young son . |
| 6 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 7 | Works produced at the theatre in Hvar , rebuilt in 1612 after its destruction in 1571 , five years before London 's first theatre was built , carried on the literary traditions of the Hvar literary school established in the previous century . |
| 8 | Of a far bell carried on the sweet south air — ; Her accoutrements the gay dense cover of earth . |
| 9 | In one instance various methods were contemplated to abate the odour from a maggot farm without success , catalytic incineration finally proving successful , and in another extreme case a company carried out the following trials , without success , in an attempt to abate the odour emanating from their factory : |
| 10 | Consultant neurosurgeon Fred Nath , who carried out the delicate operation yesterday free of charge at Middlesbrough General Hospital , said the next few days would be important . |
| 11 | A tower where Robert Watson-Watt carried out the early experiments with radar can still be seen , as can the crumbling remains of the curious Pergola-style buildings which were used to test nuclear triggers following the Second World War . |
| 12 | From 1879 to 1905 Peach carried out the palaeontological duties in Scotland in addition to his many field commitments . |
| 13 | The defendant failed to comply and the local authority carried out the requisite works and served two demands , on 31 May 1984 and 25 April 1985 , for the costs . |
| 14 | Josephus , the Jewish historian , states that Quirinius carried out the Syrian census in 6 AD . |
| 15 | During the Gulf War the crews servicing Buccaneers at RAF ABingdon carried out the impossible ; servicing a plane in just 10 days instead of the usual 84 days by working round the clock . |
| 16 | As Reg Underhill , he carried out the key role of national agent for Labour from 1972 to 1979 . |
| 17 | In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father . |
| 18 | The nurses carried out the usual steam tent preparations while I gave the child one dose of aconite . |
| 19 | And Alana Jeanette also told the jury how Darren Nichol had unsuccessfully tried to make love to her just hours before he allegedly carried out the frenzied sex attack on Josephine Chandler . |
| 20 | As you all know , the American imperialists carried out the ruinous separate election and organised the so-called National Assembly with the support of the traitor minority and with savage oppression upon the majority of the South Korean people . |
| 21 | On his failure to do so the local authority carried out the necessary work and served written demands on 31 May 1984 and 25 April 1985 for the costs incurred . |
| 22 | This fellow was one of the Luciferi who had threatened me in London , carried out the dreadful murders of the Ralembergs and put the blame on me . |
| 23 | But Dr Neil Harris , of the European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment , which carried out the four-month study , said its conclusions , although serious , were not yet cause ‘ to walk around London with a hat on ’ . |
| 24 | Where the control failed — largely , he argued , because the autocrats lost control of the bureaucrats who carried out the day-to-day organization — the cultures collapsed . |
| 25 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 26 | It was he who carried out the Stalinist purges which lasted from 1949 to 1953 . |
| 27 | Most of the part-time farmers were middle aged and their wives , aided by parents , carried out the daily livestock work . |
| 28 | Darlington and District Vehicle Inspectorate , who carried out the incognito tests , have now put three MOT garages out of action and banned eight MOT testers from testing more cars . |
| 29 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 30 | The deputy head who carried out the original study was willing to repeat the exhausting exercise , even though he was also responsible for the CCC . |