Example sentences of "he carried out the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | From time to time he was instructed to raise money by conducting sales of wood from the king 's demesne , and he carried out the king 's policy regarding mining in the forest , which wavered between a desire to increase the Forest revenues and concern lest the vert be destroyed . |
2 | Apart from building fourteen piers , he carried out the Devon and Somerset railway , Exmouth docks , Ilfracombe harbour , and the West Surrey waterworks . |
3 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
4 | Whatever his proclivities , he carried out the wooing in gallant style . |
5 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
6 | The jury heard he carried out the attack on a post graduate Russian student as she cycled home across Oxford 's Port Meadow last July . |
7 | Whether he carried out the instructions correctly or not we do not know , but the next morning the block had disappeared , vaporised , and part of the fume cupboard housing the experiment and the floor nearby had been destroyed . |
8 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
9 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
10 | He told detectives he carried out the raid at Radlett , Herts , because he was worried about crippled Rosie , his mistress for 25 years . |