Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact .
2 Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year .
3 As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies .
4 This combination of class and status was carried into the twentieth century .
5 Codes and cyphers still gave some protection against this , and in one or two cases at least cryptography was carried in the seventeenth century to a level which was not to be surpassed for generations to come .
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