Example sentences of "carried [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a banner carried during a demonstration in York against child slavery , organized by Richard Oastler ( q.v. ) in 1832 . |
| 2 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |
| 3 | When , at last , the reformed corporation carried through the enclosure in 1845 , and the town could burst outwards , the damage had been done ( Fig. 14 ) . |
| 4 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 5 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 6 | The gamekeeper ran to the nearby camp of the navvies and with the aid of a sheep-hurdle Putt was carried through the village to the manor . |
| 7 | On his second voyage he sees the valley of the Diamonds ( CS 1 ; PFI 10 ) , and is carried through the air by a roc , a gigantic bird to whose feet he has tied himself while it is sleeping ( CS 15 ; PFI 10 ) . |
| 8 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
| 9 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 10 | A placard carried through the city by Women for Peace was changed overnight , with the addition of two deaths to the total killed since 1969 . |
| 11 | The blue and yellow theme will be carried through the summer by lobelias , marigolds and dahlias . |
| 12 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 13 | Whilst the Soviets carried through the redistribution of land , the nationalisation of industry and the transfer of political authority to German Communists , so the three Western powers increasingly co-operated in the creation of a federalised , liberal-democratic state in the West . |
| 14 | The minister therefore seemed to have carried through the understanding reached with the British Medical Association in September . |
| 15 | Not one of the Hawick contingent returned from Flodden , but each year a flag is carried through the town by the ‘ Comet ’ , this time a young married man . |
| 16 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 17 | In the short term , de Gaulle was carried through the crisis by the personal support of Churchill ( who defended him before the House of Commons ) and by his own reserves of self-assurance . |
| 18 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 19 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 20 | In pre-Christian times it was carried as a charm against witchcraft , a notion which survived long after the arrival of Christianity . |
| 21 | Costs previously carried as a contribution to woodland maintenance , heritage and amenity will no longer be borne as owners seek to comply with the new requirements . |
| 22 | The Fascists claimed that their name derived from the fasces , bundles of rods carried as a symbol of power by victors of the Roman Empire . |
| 23 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 24 | Pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances carried as a scent or as protection against disease . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Halfway down the length of the tunnel a patten caught an advancing man under the chin so that his alarmed cry was cut off short as he was lifted and carried for a distance of several paces before he fell away . |
| 27 | Proposals were carried for the creation of " broad committees " , " Leagues of Young Chartists " and similar groups to attract those " who will not go all the way with the Minority Movement " . |
| 28 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
| 29 | In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier . |
| 30 | Being unsuitably clothed and improperly trained often resulted in their having to be carried off the fell and revived on the village green . |