Example sentences of "carried [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 2 | From the travel point of view things carried on a bit from there in a local sense . |
| 3 | In The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co v Bennett ( 1913 ) 6 TC 327 , a UK company carried on a trade in the United Kingdom and overseas and income from investments overseas ( interest and dividends ) arose to the company . |
| 4 | Salomon carried on a business as a sole trader . |
| 5 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 6 | In 1814 , Samuel Webb leased the mill to Stephen and Edward Blackwell , who carried on the tradition of cloth making . |
| 7 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 8 | Mother carried on the tradition in our house and she was a talented musician . |
| 9 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 10 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 11 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 12 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 13 | The architect was Andrea Spezza ; the two men who carried on the work after his death , Vicenzo Boccaccio and Nicolo Sebregondi , followed his designs . |
| 14 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 15 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 16 | At Whitehall the petition was unloaded and carried on the shoulders of eight officers into the Commons . |
| 17 | A company owned and run by Mr and Mrs Bunch carried on the business of purchase and resale of bulk butter . |
| 18 | In Re A Company 's Application [ 1989 ] 3 WLR 265 the plaintiff company carried on the business of providing financial advice and was subject to the regulatory scheme imposed by FIMBRA pursuant to the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 19 | His widow Mary Ann carried on the business with the assistance of her late husband 's associates , including Pierre André , who with John Chapman began a large-scale map of Essex ‘ for Mrs. Rocque ’ . |
| 20 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 21 | They had three sons and six daughters ; the eldest son , John Wesley Hackworth ( 1820–1891 ) carried on the business after his father 's death , 7 July 1850 , at his home in Shildon , county Durham . |
| 22 | But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old 's powerful and seductive vocals . |
| 23 | The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct . |
| 24 | As they carried away a pannier of my blood , I felt almost as bad as I pretended to be . |
| 25 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 26 | As they reached the level of the deck a wall of green water lifted with a monstrous boom at the bow then broke into huge white columns of water , not unlike a Niagara Fall that carried majestically the length of Titron . |
| 27 | Other drivers had taken a break and carried off a number of her fellow spectators , but Simon had yet to appear . |
| 28 | A Black Brant rocket from Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg carried aloft a package of explosives prepared by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico . |
| 29 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 30 | Detectives who carried out a raid at an exclusive house at Coatham Mundeville , near Darlington , have held talks with the Crown Prosecution Service which is now considering the content of a number of articles seized . |