Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] carry [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan , who was won several national awards , agreed to compete against all 75 children at Hinderwell Junior School , Scarborough , who were carrying out a topic on communications . |
| 2 | The police , who were carrying out an operation to recover illegal arms in Muhajir-populated areas , opened fire on the crowd which included women and children , many of whom carried copies of the Quran on their heads in a traditional sign of protest . |
| 3 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 4 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 5 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 6 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 7 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 8 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 9 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |
| 10 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 11 | For example , if one were carrying out a survey of library users over six days and the analysis for the working week produced , let us say , 20 print-out sheets , then to ask also for sub-analyses for each of the six days could result in a further 120 sheets . |
| 12 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |
| 13 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 14 | The company formed to explore the sunken liner said it was carrying out the search with the French Institute for the Research and Exploitation of the Sea . |
| 15 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 16 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 17 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 18 | David Quelch of Buntingford , Herefordshire , admitted using the device to remove fish at a pit in Haddenham , Cambridgeshire without consent but claimed he was carrying out a health check on behalf of the owners . |
| 19 | He was carrying out a routine inquiry when his hand was severed by a Samurai sword . |