Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the lifeboat and casualty were being carried astern by the wind and tide , so power was increased in order to make headway . |
| 2 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 3 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 4 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 6 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 7 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 8 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 9 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 10 | They go to amusement arcades , and start a poetry magazine , and buy pornographic books , and release long streamers of lavatory paper from the top of the Pan-Am building to see whose will be carried further by the wind as it falls . |
| 11 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 12 | Advance corporation tax is to be carried forward to the extent that it is expected to be recovered in the foreseeable future . |