Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] carry [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |