Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing .
3 Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ?
4 They are greedy for Humans , the sidh , and if they can once trap you with their music they will carry you down to the caves beneath the sea and steal one of your five senses and tear out your soul . ’
5 Sembene Ousmane is a story-teller and a skilful writer who can carry you along with the drama and the atmosphere regardless of subject .
6 ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’
7 If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river .
8 I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me .
9 It was in Launceston that Gould took the opportunity of parting company with Gilbert , instructing him to await the arrival in Launceston of the Comet , which would carry him on to the Swan River in Western Australia .
10 Only then did he carry him back to the entrance .
11 Let it carry him along for a bit longer .
12 The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate .
13 ‘ Help me carry it up to the house . ’
14 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 .
15 On the other hand the doctrine clearly applies to contractual terms by which the covenantee , an employer or a purchaser of a business , seeks to forbid the covenantor ( the employee or seller ) from carrying on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on after the purchase and sale of labour or the business , has been completed .
16 ‘ I 'll hide in the boat and the river will carry it down to the bridge .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed .
20 He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat .
21 Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals .
22 Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals .
23 if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it .
24 No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " .
25 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 .
26 And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside .
27 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
28 See them carrying them out with the Union Jack .
29 Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’
30 There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site .
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