Example sentences of "was carried [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . " |
| 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 | When I originally found the frame I thought how pretty it would look if the green of the surround was carried through to the mount and the colour of the picture . |
| 4 | The theme of the convention was carried through by every speaker and in every session . |
| 5 | Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it . |
| 6 | Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question . |
| 7 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to Curtin and Shields , Irish Base Metals literally occupied the area on which they found metal : ‘ Thus early prospecting was carried on outside the framework of the mining legislation and involved a tortious interference with the property and livelihood of local farmers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 13 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 14 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This hi-tech theme was carried on with the Starstream XII which featured a semi-acoustic Teardrop body , built in tuner , distortion , treble and bass boost , percussion and a hand operated wah-wah device . |
| 17 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 18 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |
| 19 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 20 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 21 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 22 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
| 23 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 24 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 25 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 26 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 27 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 28 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |