Example sentences of "[was/were] carried [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 2 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 3 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 4 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 5 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 6 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 7 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 8 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |