Example sentences of "were carried [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 2 | During the first visit , when Graham was just 13 months old , countless tests were carried out to try to find the cause of the illness . |
| 3 | , there were of course two deaths , Piggy and Simon , the bodies of whom were carried out to sea by the current . |
| 4 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 5 | Delhi was sacked and many of the Moghul treasures were carried back to Iran , including a Peacock Throne , which was lost en route and then copied by Iranian craftsmen . |