Example sentences of "[vb past] carried [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 2 | He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made . |
| 3 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 4 | We would not have known it was here , unless we had carried out the exercise last night . |
| 5 | At their trial , the judge is believed to have added 25 per cent to each sentence specifically because the police had carried out the attack while operating in their official capacity . |
| 6 | The Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) claimed on Feb. 5 that a unit from its Katibat Ushshaq al-Shahadah ( Martyrdom Lovers ' Battalion ) had carried out the attack . |
| 7 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 8 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 9 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 10 | The Deputy Prosecutor-General of Russia , Yevgeny Lisov , who had carried out the investigation , said on Jan. 22 that there was no evidence implicating former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the coup , but that his actions might have led the conspirators to think that they could count on his support . |
| 11 | The FMLN denied claims that its urban commandos had carried out the murder . |
| 12 | Internal Affairs Minister Khristo Danov declared on June 5 that he was convinced that Bulgaria 's former secret police had carried out the murder in 1978 of Georgi Markov . |
| 13 | He had carried out the killing . |
| 14 | The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez — FPMR ) said that one of its former members had carried out the killing , and 13 people were subsequently arrested . |
| 15 | What was more , Fox was satisfied that the presence of Alfred 's fresh prints on the damaged articles was convincing evidence that it was he who had carried out the destruction . |
| 16 | In a broadcast on Feb. 23 the NPKC explained why it had carried out the coup . |
| 17 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 18 | The outlawed Loyalist group , the Ulster Freedom Fighters , said that it had carried out the shooting . |
| 19 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 20 | In his speech at the inauguration , Kadhafi said that Libya had carried out the project unaided by developed nations or international financial institutions . |