Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts .
2 Happily for their manager Sebastiao Lazaroni , the Brazilians are now unbeaten in 15 games and embarked on a run which they hope will carry them to Turin next summer on a wave of confidence and efficiency .
3 Mr Fallon , said the Government had a proven track record which would carry it to victory .
4 He apparently made his way north to Gdańsk and organised a merchant vessel to carry him to Finland .
5 But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety .
6 Dad Mark managed to carry her to safety before the alarm burst into flames .
7 But for the intervention of a lone SS soldier in black battledress , he and his navigator , the Australian Donald Walsh , might well have been lynched by a hostile crowd aboard the train carrying them to interrogation .
8 There was no explanation and none she needed as passion rose , carrying them to heights Fran had never imagined .
9 The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison .
10 But if that movement were to succeed and in so doing carry him to power , he promised a systematic cruelty or slaughter as precise , impersonal and ineluctable as a quadratic equation .
11 She would be Little-Miss-Never-Forgets , obtain the promised bread-soda from Mrs Geary and carry it to Aunt Tossie 's bedroom .
12 Equivalently we can imagine picking up b and carrying it to A without changing its length or direction and then examining whether it fits a exactly .
13 After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned .
14 The Underground took them to Waterloo and another train carried them to Woking where they were met by Louise 's husband , Jim .
15 Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America .
16 Army6pts Royal Air Force18 THE greater efficiency of the Royal Air Force 's back row and the all-round kicking ability of their outside-half , Paul Hull , carried them to victory at Twickenham against the Army in the final match of this season 's Inter-Service tournament .
17 W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding .
18 The effort exhausted her and Pat wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to Maureen 's car .
19 Sally Prosser ( Wentworth ) gave Britain a third Asian title in four weeks when a final round of 75 carried her to victory in the JAL Malaysian Open at Rahman Putra in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday .
20 ‘ One of the film crew dived in and carried her to safety and she was given the kiss of life .
21 ‘ When Murias fell , it was my brother Gaiar who saved Undry and carried it to Andernesse .
22 I ca n't talk now I have gone so limp and languid and sugary with my flesh stretched and itching , so Crilly carries me to bed .
23 Now the larger giant supertankers bring their oil to the deep water terminal at Finnart , on the western fjord coast , and a new pipeline carries it to Grangemouth .
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