Example sentences of "carried [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As flagship of the quartet , N185 carried aboard the then Secretary of State for Air , Sir Samuel Hoare . |
| 2 | There is also a banner carried during a demonstration in York against child slavery , organized by Richard Oastler ( q.v. ) in 1832 . |
| 3 | The pagan contemporaries of Constantine were not wrong in saying that he had carried through a huge religious and social revolution . |
| 4 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 5 | The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding , with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church . |
| 6 | The minister therefore seemed to have carried through the understanding reached with the British Medical Association in September . |
| 7 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 8 | The blue and yellow theme will be carried through the summer by lobelias , marigolds and dahlias . |
| 9 | The government of the day carried through the efforts of the most highly trained and intelligent of any group of civil servants in continental Europe . |
| 10 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 14 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |
| 15 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 16 | The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | During 1917 the proletariat detached the mass of the petty bourgeoisie from their earlier allegiance to the Mensheviks , SRs , and bourgeois nationalist movements of the minority nationalities , and in October , in alliance with the poorest peasantry , carried through the epoch-making socialist revolution . |
| 23 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |