Example sentences of "[vb past] be carry [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 2 | Needless to say , there was not much work for this legendary character as a film star ; the next film in which he appeared was Carry on Up the Khyber in 1960 . |
| 3 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 4 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 5 | In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped . |
| 6 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 7 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 8 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 9 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 10 | In 1685 two small-scale but embarrassing attacks , by the Duke of Monmouth in the west of England and the Duke of Argyll in Scotland , had been defeated on land but the initial landings had been carried out without the navy being able to stop them . |
| 11 | At the beginning of the month it was announced that of 1,760 extremist attacks in the period from the beginning of January to Nov. 8 , 1992 , 1,000 had been carried out over the previous two months . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 13 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 14 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
| 15 | The West German Finance Minister , Mr Theo Waigel , ruled out a common German currency until economic reforms had been carried out in the East . |
| 16 | In a somewhat terse paper — it being considered that the more substantial analysis of principles had been carried out in the HMI document A View of the Curriculum — it was maintained that throughout the period of compulsory schooling , from 5–16 , all pupils should undertake study in English , mathematics , science , religious education , and physical education . |
| 17 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
| 18 | Of course , much survey and exploratory work on the North Sea Oil fields had been carried out in the years previous to our patrols . |
| 19 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 20 | Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published . |
| 21 | This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable . |
| 22 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 23 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 24 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |