Example sentences of "were carry [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only .
2 The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead .
3 Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules .
4 Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’
5 For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets .
6 Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder .
7 The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government .
8 Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body .
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