Example sentences of "carry [pron] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The IAAF must urgently review the situation , for when you make your rules you have to carry them out to the letter of the law . |
| 2 | The strip had carried him right to the end of the branch . |
| 3 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 4 | Only then did he carry him back to the entrance . |
| 5 | ‘ Help me carry it up to the house . ’ |
| 6 | She did n't know if he wanted a wife and children , but she knew that , having set his hand to any task , he would carry it through to the end . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll hide in the boat and the river will carry it down to the bridge . |
| 8 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 9 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 10 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 11 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 12 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 13 | And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside . |
| 14 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 15 | About the fishes who swallow human sins , and carry them away to the ocean . |
| 16 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 17 | Yes , you can put them in bags and carry them out to the bin . |
| 18 | If I carry you down to the garden I shall expect your life story in full , a complete and truthful exposé . ’ |
| 19 | For a brief moment later , he had picked her bodily up in his arms , and , as if she weighed less than nothing , was carrying her over to the bed . |
| 20 | He caught her up in his arms , carrying her through to the bedroom , disrobing her with eager , predatory fingers until she stood naked except for the glint of gold at her throat . |
| 21 | But Rohan 's arm was like a steel band round her waist , half lifting her from her feet , and carrying her inexorably to the door . |
| 22 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 23 | We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains . |
| 24 | She 's not comi oh what do you want me to do , pick her up and carry her over to the house ? |
| 25 | He 'd fill it and carry it up to the wood in the blanket . |
| 26 | With much huffing and puffing , the beetles managed to lift the pebble and carry it over to the professor 's circle . |
| 27 | I shall tear out your soul , and carry it away to the Prison of Hostages , and then perhaps the Conablaiche will come to tear out your heart , for there is nothing my Master likes so well as a warm heart , a Mortal heart , still beating , fresh and running with blood and juices … |
| 28 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 29 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 30 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |