Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby there was no doubt that the defendant knew of business secrets but the court decided they were far too complicated and detailed for the defendant to have been able to carry them away in his head and as there was no evidence of actual copying , this part of the claim failed .
2 They were heavy , and Ben Hesketh would need help to carry them out to his car .
3 I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave .
4 I had carried you around inside my mind for years and here was total stranger kissing you . ’
5 For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous .
6 Video inserts are very useful as an editing tool , though the scope for carrying them out on your camcorder is reduced if , as is probable , it does not have a video-in socket for the insertion of pre-recorded material .
7 " I 'll storm the battlements and carry you away over my saddle . "
8 ‘ — and carry you off to my bed . ’
9 I was carrying him upstairs in his pram thing , with only about a week to go .
10 She had dreamed , as very young girls did , of a handsome knight who would one day arrive at her father 's castle , fall in love with her , win her heart by some brave deed , and carry her away across his saddle-bow .
11 This was only natural , so I just had to grab her leash as she flew by and carry her back on my glove .
12 One of the less endearing habits of the time , was to remove the head of the principal adversary , and carry it back to their castle , as a grisly trophy of war .
13 She made herself a sandwich and a cup of tea and carried them along to her workroom .
14 She carried you there near her heart a long , long time while you were growing .
15 The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ .
16 ‘ You 're saying that you 've not seen him since I half carried him out of your place early yesterday ? ’
17 When they arrived at the Ca' del Leone Michele carried her straight to her room .
18 She clung to him , terrified he would drop her as he carried her upstairs to her bedroom .
19 Picking up the child , who was breathing in gulps like an oarsman at the end of a race , Thomas bent down to save her sculptures and carried her through to her mother .
20 Without another word , he swung her up into his arms and carried her back to her blanket beneath the tree .
21 She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in .
22 And he went out and defied the Count and slew him , and smote off his head and carried it home to his father .
23 When the mice had scattered across the carpet and melted into the shadows by the wainscoting , Alexandra picked up their home of five days and carried it back to her tower room .
24 Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place .
25 ( Cuzco , Cuzco is your sacred name/ like the sun of the immortal Inca river/ all the world carries you off in its breast/ like a song and a triumphal flag . )
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