Example sentences of "was carry [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
2 | A granite rock was carried up the mountain but over the next 120 years parts of the inscription did get broken away ; the climate at 2,700m can be very severe . |
3 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
4 | Town 's Roger Charles was carried off the field following a crunch and tackle just following this , but the score remained at two each , so the final result ; Harefield United two , Abingdon Town two . |
5 | After Charlie was carried off the aircraft , it was unable to even taxi and I had to be towed off the runway . |
6 | ‘ I was carried off the pitch at the end — to be received like that was one of the best feelings I 've experienced in my life . |
7 | She was carried down the drive by her grandmother and rushed into the lounge to play with her toys , with a bonfire night cake waiting for her . |
8 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
9 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
10 | The motion was carried despite a plea by Alfred Caldecott to give ‘ private enterprise the chance first ’ . |
11 | Emergency regulations insisted upon immediate burial , and her body was carried to a cemetery outside the town . |
12 | Other authorities cited to us strongly suggest that this is not a good plea unless the earlier case was carried to a conclusion . |
13 | He was carried to the truck . |
14 | As her coffin was carried to the grave , Ol' Blue Eyes sang the line : ‘ Start spreading the news , I 'm leaving today . ’ |
15 | Tallis had seen the grimacing features as she was carried to the grave . |
16 | They watched as the casket was carried to the mouth of the tomb . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In pre-Christian times it was carried as a charm against witchcraft , a notion which survived long after the arrival of Christianity . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |