Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 32 | In pre-Christian times it was carried as a charm against witchcraft , a notion which survived long after the arrival of Christianity . |
| 33 | The hilt of a hiranu , the short sword of Manchu manufacture which was carried as an alternative to the jusei , peeped from his waist sash . |
| 34 | The body of eighty one year old James Moore was carried into the church by his brothers some of his twenty two grandchildren walked behind . |
| 35 | It 's in these areas that the ocean heat is lost or vented to the atmosphere as this heat vent was carried into the ocean in the lower latitudes . |
| 36 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 37 | Left for dead , the body was carried into the monastery by the monks and laid in a tent outside the church , but after midnight Eardwulf was found in the church alive . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 44 | As though , however , by an inevitable destiny , International Finance wound its coils through the heart of England , and its venom was carried throughout the bloodstream to the whole Colonial and Imperial system . |
| 45 | The coffin , consisting of a few planks , was carried from the workhouse by other inmates ; it was not allowed in the church , but was met by the parson at the graveside . |
| 46 | Even I shed a tear when the coffin was carried from the church to a recording of Jack Charlton 's ‘ Geordie Sunday ’ . |
| 47 | Following a nasty knee injury against Shrewsbury in November 1984 , when he was carried from the field with his leg cut to the bone , George played again , with massive strapping and padding the following Saturday , and in all the ensuing games , in considerable pain and in spite of his injury . |
| 48 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 49 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 50 | Enoch 's raft was carried by a shoal of fish to Culross where she was baptised by St Serf . |
| 51 | When the motion was put to the vote it was Carried by a majority of twenty-one to three . |
| 52 | In due course a motion " That it is satisfactorily proved to this Conference that the intermarriage of deaf and dumb is conducive to their happiness and there is no reason to fear injurious results there from " , was carried by a majority of twenty-four to two . |
| 53 | Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV . |
| 54 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 55 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 56 | The oil was carried by the tide onto the shore . |
| 57 | At his funeral his coffin was carried by the Headington Quarry morris men in morris rig . |
| 58 | The Madonna and Child probably do carry the symbolic meaning which he attributes to them ; but if this is so then it is one which much earlier was carried by the representations of Isis nursing Horus , or by the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , herself a lineal descendant of Palaeolithic figurines like the Venus of Willendorf . |
| 59 | The plan was carried by an alliance of Liberal Democrat councillors and the breakaway Liverpool Labour Councillors group . |
| 60 | The numeral ‘ 5 ’ was carried in the centre and the dates were shown as 1901–02 . |