Example sentences of "[noun] carried [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 5 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 6 | They heard the horn again , the sound of hounds carried on the still air . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of a far bell carried on the sweet south air — ; Her accoutrements the gay dense cover of earth . |
| 10 | From 1879 to 1905 Peach carried out the palaeontological duties in Scotland in addition to his many field commitments . |
| 11 | Her voice carried on the still air . |
| 12 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 13 | Josephus , the Jewish historian , states that Quirinius carried out the Syrian census in 6 AD . |
| 14 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 15 | The nurses carried out the usual steam tent preparations while I gave the child one dose of aconite . |
| 16 | In the 1950s , Professor Paul carried out the first experiments using a form of magnetic bottle — the ‘ Paul trap ’ — to isolate ionised atoms . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | Detectives say small-time crook Pat Thomas carried out the 1990 raid in London for the Mafia , but the American mob killed him after he ‘ grassed . ’ |