Example sentences of "[pers pn] carry [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very last thing I note is which direction a swim faces and for this I carry a small compass . |
| 2 | In the back streets that lead towards Victor 's place I carry the dead weight in my carrier bag , and I feel rootless . |
| 3 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 4 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 5 | She wore a long raincoat which drooped from her thin shoulders and she carried a small overnight bag . |
| 6 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 7 | Paula 's bag and shoes were patent black leather , her gloves white , and she carried a long walking umbrella neatly furled in its fur-trimmed case . |
| 8 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 9 | Hearing a knock , Miranda turned her head to the door as the housekeeper entered ; she carried a Victorian brass birdcage , in which was a dove . |
| 10 | She carried a large bouquet of white roses and pink carnations and her bridesmaids Eileen , Sarah and Kate , wore their pink taffeta dresses and carried white and pink chrysanthemums . |
| 11 | She carried a large handbag whenever she went out . |
| 12 | She carried a large black leather Gladstone bag in her hand . |
| 13 | She carried a pink umbrella . |
| 14 | Stella must remember that she carried a heavy responsibility for the good name of the theatre . |
| 15 | She carried a yellow scarf and had a jar of shit-brown cream in her hand , which she was trying to conceal behind her back . |
| 16 | Even in that company Beatrice would look original ; sometimes she carried an open wicker basket with a live duck inside . |
| 17 | Under one of the saucers she carried an open shorthand notebook . |
| 18 | She carried an enormous weapon . |
| 19 | She wore her old green and brown tweed coat , and her gardening gloves and , in her left hand , she carried the cardboard box . |
| 20 | She wore a tailored two-piece grey suit and delicate shoes , and there was a scarf over her hair that came from Dior , minimum , and she carried the red roses . |
| 21 | Thirty years old — five years older than Richard — she carried the unmistakable air of not being easily impressed by anything , or anyone . |
| 22 | She carried the empty plates out into the kitchen . |
| 23 | She carried the little boy back to his lorry and set him down . |
| 24 | She carries the Daily Mail , which has just been delivered . |
| 25 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 26 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 27 | Nor will they carry a damage-control headquarters from where the crew would fight the fires that break out when a missile or bomb hits the ship . |
| 28 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 29 | They carry a low degree of CD because , being context-dependent , they do not play a major role in pushing the communication forward . |
| 30 | Completely separate from any central chromosome , they carry a broad palette of bacterial genes and provide genetic engineers with a useful means of introducing new genes into microbes . |