Example sentences of "carry [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 Sembene Ousmane is a story-teller and a skilful writer who can carry you along with the drama and the atmosphere regardless of subject .
3 Strong tides will carry you quickly in a direction you may not want to go .
4 ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’
5 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 .
6 ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ?
7 I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me .
8 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 .
9 Only then did he carry him back to the entrance .
10 Let it carry him along for a bit longer .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Help me carry it up to the house . ’
13 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 .
14 I was happy in my Office ; it was exacting but I could carry it easily in the House of Lords ; and I had no wish to re-submit myself to the rough and tumble of electioneering and the House of Commons …
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 She helped me carry it far along the dunes , dutifully clutching the lines and winch to her flat little chest and clicking the ratchet on the drum , until we reached a point well out of sight from the house .
17 ‘ I 'll hide in the boat and the river will carry it down to the bridge .
18 It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity .
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