Example sentences of "been carry [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She had been carried to the back of the crowd .
2 Also , whatever their dissimilarities , they all had the advantage of good geographical definition ( the only exception being France , whose eastern frontier had been carried to the Alps by Napoleon III , but which had lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871 ) .
3 The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below .
4 On his instructions his luggage had already been carried to the Citron by the congaie .
5 The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids .
6 Within the mud is a scattering of angular boulders — rock fragments that have been carried from the land by icebergs and dropped as the bergs weather and melt .
7 Fifty years after the ‘ Souldier 's ’ Bible had been carried in the pockets of the Roundheads to inspire them at Marston Moor and Naseby , appeared a reprint with some additions and alterations .
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