Example sentences of "[noun] carried the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Stolypin carriage carried the name of the Tsarist minister struck down by an assassin seventy years before . |
2 | The aqueduct carried the overflow stream over three sections of a by-pass channel I 'd cut from further up the dam . |
3 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
4 | For two hundred years the Waterways carried the goods of Britain . |
5 | John Main was a very minor figure in the politics of Inverkeithing , for he was not a councillor , but Main was influential in the hammermen 's trade , and in a contested election for deacon of the hammermen John Main 's vote carried the contest for Cunningham 's friend . |
6 | The south-westerly wind carried the gas away from Northwich but directly over the nearby villages of Lostock Gralam and Wincham . |
7 | The wind carried the tang of burning timber from an almost spent bonfire set amongst the caravans ; that , and the smell of rancid fat . |
8 | The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning . |
9 | His famous series of posters of the distraught zookeeper and his mischievous animals carried the line — My Goodness , — My Guinness — and scored another smash hit with Guinness fanciers . |
10 | Then the horse carried the king 's son to the bright home of the Sun , the windswept isle of Bujan . |
11 | She took Dot 's carriers and Dot carried the trug basket . |
12 | This report was accepted by the Tyne District and considered at a meeting of the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation on 17 November 1911 , where the views of the North of England Association carried the day and it was resolved " that the recognition of the Seamen 's Union should be based upon freedom of contract and the employment of union and/or non-union seamen and firemen , free from interference of one with the other " . |
13 | Rex carried the double-header across the lobby and inspected the row of frozen Repo Men . |
14 | Four of the Diocesan Brancardiers carried the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes , and the torchlight procession round the church after Mass , to the fervent singing of the Lourdes hymn , was a very moving experience . |
15 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |
16 | Powered by a converted Ford V6 , the aircraft carried the markings of Billy Bishop , Canadian commander of 85 Squadron , RFC . |
17 | Arab traders carried the shells to India and westwards to the great entrepot of Zanzibar . |
18 | ALL Royal Bank banknotes carried the arms ( and head ) of George II up until as recently as the early 1960s when there was a general clampdown on indiscriminate use of the Royal Arms and we were told to go and get our own . |
19 | But to keep overindebtedness as low as possible — and in October 1990 Sir Gordon Borrie said the level of default had risen , and was significant and disturbing — the government ruled that every advertisement of a mortgage lender carried the warning : |
20 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
21 | His sweat-shirt carried the slogan : ‘ No ! to Trident ! ’ , and his jeans seemed about to fall apart . |
22 | Jane carried the tray across to the police officers with what looked to the sergeant like absurd concentration and Dexter wondered uncharitably whether she had already been drinking . |
23 | QPR 's Clive Wilson pleaded in vain with the fan to leave and finally four stewards carried the man away . |
24 | I do not think that this remark carried the matter any further in the context of agency and undue influence . |
25 | The underground trains , buses and other public transport carried the notice , ‘ Coughs and sneezes spread diseases . |
26 | In his Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe of 1792 Burke carried the argument to its logical conclusion : |
27 | Four successive Williams then three Michaels carried the surname well into the eighteenth century . |
28 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
29 | When the lamps were plugged in , the hotel 's own electrical circuits carried the microphones ' output to a receiver and voice-activated recorder in another room down the hall . |
30 | One of the latest packages carried the message : ‘ Light the blue touchpaper and retire immediately , ’ Ipswich Crown Court heard . |