Example sentences of "[adv] carry [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he spoke , his voice was raised just loud enough to carry over the low-pitched brass rumbles . |
| 2 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 3 | Also being treated is a twenty-one year old woman who was travelling in the stolen car , and was apparently carried from the scene of the accident by the car 's driver . |
| 4 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 5 | Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left . |
| 6 | The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip |
| 7 | At the same time , it is the responsibility of the teacher to watch the situation carefully , in the light of his understanding of his students , in order to see that this withholding of reward is not carried to the point where the student feels discouraged . |
| 8 | Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV . |
| 9 | as Younger did in January 1922 , that a coalition could best carry through the policies that Unionists wanted , but by then the main Unionist demands were directed against Labour anyway . |
| 10 | The Company 's contacts with its parent force had been slight , and transmissions from their 109 wireless set ( see Appendix 5 ) would not carry across the mountains and headlands to Koebang . |
| 11 | He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money . |
| 12 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |
| 13 | If we add a syllable , the ‘ fall ’ part of the fall-rise is usually carried by the first syllable and the ‘ rise ’ part by the second . |
| 14 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 15 | I was nearly knocked down the steps then nearly carried up the steps then nearly trampled upon then nearly asphyxiated then completely ambushed engulfed surrounded then wholly abandoned . |
| 16 | Earlier this year he won the Kronenbourg Open in Italy and the Heineken Open in Barcelona , both European Tour events , and also carried off the Scottish championship . |
| 17 | His voice now carried across the quay to the boat , interfering with the sombre piped music . |
| 18 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 19 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 20 | Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles . |
| 21 | When he auditioned for us , late in " 42 , Collingwood 's reaction was " a marvellous musician ! " , but at the same time Menges was concerned that his voice would n't carry in the larger theatres . |
| 22 | FIG. 1 Flux expulsion creates a pair of flux patches of opposite polarity at the core surface ; they are then carried by the core flow . |
| 23 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 24 | It may be the spontaneous result of exposing the virus to the general chemical environment of the cell ; or specific enzymes , either carried by the virus or present in the cell , might catalyse the break-up . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea when you know it 's dangerous ’ ( quoted by B. J. Wagner , 1976 , p. 59 ) , muses Mrs. Heathcote to a class of children who are into a drama about pirates — and she from then on carries at the back of her mind the possibility that through the subsequent experience these children might understand something of what drives people to face dangers . |
| 26 | A wand tipped with a pine cone was commonly carried by the god or his worshippers . |