Example sentences of "[coord] carry [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long . |
| 2 | A stream of other officials walked in and out regularly to give advice , pass on information or carry in the heavy wooden boxes full of papers which surrounded them like a stockade . |
| 3 | Although every ideology forms its own criteria and language of evaluation , it is doubly difficult to be discriminating and to carry through a particular form of objectivity when reading accounts of conservation in socialist or ‘ socialist ’ countries . |
| 4 | Edward I also became involved with the Scots by claiming the right of arbitration between the rivals for the Scottish throne , at the end of 1290 , and he installed a puppet government in the lowlands of Scotland and carried off the traditional coronation stone from Scone , transporting it to Westminster . |
| 5 | This school 's Cadet Corps scored an unique achievement when they participated in the Royal Tournament at Olympia in 1927 , and carried off the Lady West Trophy against fierce competition from other , hearing , Cadet Corps troops . |
| 6 | Frederica strode grimly up and carried off the Oxford Companions to English and Classical Literature . |
| 7 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 8 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 9 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 10 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 11 | Tracey Morton , 29 , had to undergo five brain operations when she was thrown into the air and carried down the road by the motorbike in High Holborn , London , in August 1988 . |
| 12 | Halfway down the length of the tunnel a patten caught an advancing man under the chin so that his alarmed cry was cut off short as he was lifted and carried for a distance of several paces before he fell away . |
| 13 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 14 | And yet she had not cried , not even now , when the coffin was to be taken from Summer Lodge and carried to the graveyard on the hill overlooking the sea , could she give way to tears . |
| 15 | PEAT CUTTING Part of the magic of Scotch Whisky is owned to the mysterious qualities of peat , which is cut from the moors and carried to the distilleries . |
| 16 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 17 | If everyone is satisfied that the minutes are accurate , there is either a general murmur of assent , which the Chairman takes as approval , or , more officially , a member will move that the minutes be signed as a correct record , and the motion is then seconded and carried by a show of hands . |
| 18 | When these desert shrimps reproduce , the eggs are protected and carried by the female , either in a special sac-like structure as in the brine shrimp , or in a special pouch as in the tadpole shrimp . |
| 19 | A Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament banner was unfurled and carried round the war memorial before one of those carrying it was arrested . |
| 20 | The League and Central League trophies , for the first time held by one club , decked with blue and white ribbons , were displayed in the directors ' box and carried round the field at half-time . |
| 21 | The piggies blushed even pinker than usual as they were hoisted onto the shoulders of their friends and carried round the room . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 23 | She knocked loudly at the door of his room and carried in a tray of caviar . |
| 24 | It is essential for normal growth and is secreted by the pituitary and carried in the blood to all parts of the body ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 25 | The danger of serious conflict occurring on the border was anticipated in a motion proposed by the United States and carried in the General Assembly in 1949 authorising UNCOK to observe developments on the border and to report back on clashes that could give rise to war . |
| 26 | The trainee , together with the in-bureau tutor , should work out and carry through a tailor-made course of study . |
| 27 | Something has been stealing the farmers ' chickens and carrying off the young sheep from the hills . |
| 28 | Men were also in demand for fetching and carrying At a suitable moment after the meal a plate or basket was passed round each table and the guests put in their subscriptions . |
| 29 | There was a little work to do , fetching and carrying about the kitchens , for which he would get ten shillings a week . |
| 30 | For it was of course Thatcher from the right , and not the left , who seized the initiative in attempting to break the stalemate of class forces and carry through a radical restructuring of the British social formation . |