Example sentences of "was carry [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leanne , screaming hysterically , was carried outside to safety . |
| 2 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 3 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 4 | Branson and Berry had brought with them a suitcase containing several thousands of American dollars , which was carried coolly through Customs , in defiance of the local currency regulations . |
| 5 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 6 | The profit-making activity of the sub-licensees was carried on outside Hong Kong but the grant of the sub-licences took place in Hong Kong where the taxpayer operated . |
| 7 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 8 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 9 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 10 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 11 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |
| 12 | The game was carried on in silence . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 14 | Anna was carried upstairs to Carrie 's bedroom . |
| 15 | What little remained of victims of the fire was carried away for identification and autopsy . |
| 16 | The war had required a high degree of economic planning , much of which was carried over into peacetime . |
| 17 | He was n't , so he did n't go right down , but was carried along under water . |
| 18 | The operation was carried out without negligence by the surgeon but the plaintiff was severely disabled as a result of damage to her spinal cord . |
| 19 | The poll based on replies from 431 out of the 574 members of the General Synod was carried out during October . |
| 20 | Laparotomy was carried out under ether anesthesia and cannulation of the bile duct was performed for continuous bile collection . |
| 21 | This prospective study was carried out between January 1985 and December 1990 . |
| 22 | The Survival Study trial was carried out between September , 1989 , and December , 1991 , and the Health Study trial between June , 1990 , and August , 1991 . |
| 23 | The people settled in the Medway valley almost certainly knew of the Romans before this date as a great deal of trade was carried out between Britain and the continent . |
| 24 | Thus , our survey was ‘ retrospective ’ because the research was carried out between July and October 1985 . |
| 25 | The survey was carried out as part of the government 's Food Advisory Committee 's review of food labelling . |
| 26 | The survey , which covered 93 of the UK 's top 500 companies and 21 financial services groups , was carried out for accountants Ernst & Young last month because of concern about level of understanding among business leaders of the issues involved in ERM membership . |
| 27 | The survey was carried out for Personnel Today magazine and its editor , Adele Kimber , says holidays are a good thing . |
| 28 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 29 | Analysis of VT2 binding efficiency was carried out with sets of mutagenized probe fragments produced on two separate occasions and gave highly reproducible results . |
| 30 | In the Turner and Rommetveit experiment ( which was carried out with children ) attentional focus was manipulated either by asking subjects a question about actor or acted-upon , or by presenting one part of the line drawing before revealing the whole drawing . |