Example sentences of "carry [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 2 | The group says they 'consider it inappropriate and ill advised to carry through the prposals for the restructuring of the Army in their entirety , and that they recommend the Government cancel all amalgamations or disbandments ’ |
| 3 | They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus . |
| 4 | Being Phil 's mate , for example , was something which many fans aspired to even though they could never hope to carry off the performances required of an aggro leader themselves . |
| 5 | The government of the day carried through the efforts of the most highly trained and intelligent of any group of civil servants in continental Europe . |
| 6 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 7 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 8 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 9 | The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science . |
| 10 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 11 | standard side boards to be carried below the windows of both saloons . |
| 12 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 15 | Particularly memorable too are the retired ministers who themselves carried into the cellars the cherished contents of their former manse libraries . |
| 16 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 17 | ( He ) must have experienced , while looking on the unruffled waters ( of a lake ) that the imagination is carried into the recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable ’ . |
| 18 | Fifty years after the ‘ Souldier 's ’ Bible had been carried in the pockets of the Roundheads to inspire them at Marston Moor and Naseby , appeared a reprint with some additions and alterations . |
| 19 | The eggs and larvae are carried in the jaws of workers . |
| 20 | Slender St. John 's wort ( Hypericum pulchrum ) , for example , was in some areas ‘ the flower carried in the arms of St. Columba ’ . |
| 21 | Its dimensions are 18½″ ( 47cm ) wide x 19″ ( 48.3cm ) high x 13″ ( 33cm ) deep , and the weight of around 30kg feels reassuringly substantial , yet easily portable , especially if carried in the arms . |
| 22 | For a start , there is growing public concern about the effects of toxocariasis , the disease transmitted by the roundworm Toxocara canis , carried in the faeces of un-wormed dogs . |
| 23 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 24 | Niacin aids blood circulation , which means that protein is carried to the muscles more efficiently , and also helps muscle recovery by carrying waste products away more quickly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 27 | The note of anger carried to the groups and couples passing by , provoking amusement and raised eyebrows . |
| 28 | The adult worms in the larger pulmonary vessels lay eggs which are carried to the capillaries , where they hatch . |
| 29 | The scene of crime exhibits , packed and tagged , would be carried to the police car ; the razor , the crumbs of bread and cheese from the larger room , the fibres from Harry 's clothing , that single burnt matchhead . |
| 30 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |