Example sentences of "carry [art] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone makes a mistake , it 's the senior person who has to carry the can . ’ |
| 2 | In the Army someone has to carry the can . |
| 3 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 4 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 5 | Just her to carry the can , the prerogative of natural leaders of men . |
| 6 | As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing . |
| 7 | SIMON TRACEY last night volunteered to carry the can for the double calamity that denied Sheffield United victory over Wimbledon . |
| 8 | In the end , it is always the client who has to carry the can , and fortunately RCA backed up Roche by continuing to retain his services . |
| 9 | John Shields , chief executive of Bedford , Massachusetts-based Computervision Corp since 1990 , has been made to carry the can for the company 's disappointing reflotation last summer , and has been fired after losing the confidence of its board of directors . |
| 10 | It not take him long to realize that if the police wanted someone to carry the can , then Dirk Coetzee was heading for death row . |
| 11 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 12 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 13 | Rank , having carried the can on that occasion , then allowed spending on Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) to reach the mind-numbing figure of £1,280,000 , twice as much as The Red Shoes . |
| 14 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 15 | Incidentally the Mirror mentioned that Lee Chapman has a new book out in which he ‘ reveals ’ that Frogslegs left in a huff because he thought he had carried the can for the defeat by Rangers . |
| 16 | Buyers , she says , are put off seeking legal redress , and ‘ why should the consumer carry the can if the expert fails to notice the house is sinking ? ’ |
| 17 | The Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , should carry the can , even though he may not have known exactly what was being done by his people . |
| 18 | ‘ This should be a lesson that drivers who carry burglars will carry the can . ’ |
| 19 | At the family home of Saltwood Castle , near Folkestone , Kent , Mrs Clark added : ‘ Members of the Government decided to let Alan carry the can . |
| 20 | Making me carry the can . |
| 21 | In Tory demonology they will always carry the can . ’ |
| 22 | Maxwell would carry the can for Saturday 's defeat by Celtic when a dropped cross allowed John Collins to equalise and a missed punch led to Brian O'Neill 's injury time winner . |
| 23 | It is the racing industry 's ‘ generals ’ who must carry the can . |
| 24 | LABOUR ‘ deadbeats ’ must carry the can for failing to secure a jobs bonanza in Darlington , it was claimed last night . |
| 25 | Soccer : Fear returns to haunt us as managers carry the can |
| 26 | They do not ‘ solve ’ intractable problems , but they make other organizations carry the can for policy failures , a factor which commonly underlies systems which accord wide discretion to local governments . |
| 27 | But the people who carry the can for Marcos and other corrupt Third World elites are the millions of ordinary , working poor . |
| 28 | ‘ But surely someone should be carrying the can for everything that 's gone on . ’ |
| 29 | Cos I 'm not carrying the can . |
| 30 | DIY man Chris McGrath got the brush-off … when he tried to board a bus carrying a can of paint . |