Example sentences of "[noun sg] to carry [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they do so , they deposit a load of pollen within the orchid flower and immediately afterwards receive a fresh batch to carry to the next false female . |
| 2 | In either case , it will be necessary to attach a small microphone somewhere below the child 's chin and to provide some arrangement for the child to carry around the radio transmitter or the small tape recorder . |
| 3 | Greece is not , on the evidence of the past , the sort of place to carry through the democratic reconstruction it now needs . |
| 4 | The ability of Margaret Thatcher 's government to carry through the radical departure from ‘ consensus ’ economic policies in the 1980s was not inhibited by civil service power , although there were titanic struggles and some officials were replaced by others more sympathetic to the government 's policies . |
| 5 | We had coal to carry from the top pasture by the road where the coalman used to leave it , and I do n't think it would have been possible but for that snow bridge . |
| 6 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 7 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 8 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |