Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | carried skyward by the warm thermals |
| 2 | At first the lifeboat and casualty were being carried astern by the wind and tide , so power was increased in order to make headway . |
| 3 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 4 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 5 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 6 | In June and July there were the ‘ strawberry specials ’ , 30 tonnes of strawberries being carried daily by the Midland Railway from the Vale of Evesham to London . |
| 7 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 8 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 9 | And she was right there , too , but Clara was beyond the rights and wrongs of the case , blissfully carried away into the angry , amoral world of combat , wonderfully disconnected from truth and falsehood , freed from gratitude by meanness , released from effort by knowledge of fruitless impossibility . |
| 10 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 11 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 12 | MARTIN PIPE was last night refusing to get carried away about the Gold Cup prospects of Rushing Wild . |
| 13 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 14 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 15 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 16 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 17 | The secret is not to get carried away with the yumminess of it all and order too much . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 19 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 20 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 21 | But do not get too carried away with the idea of a gimmicky photograph . |
| 22 | It 's all too easy to get carried away with the business of everyday life , and to put your own requirements tot he bottom of the pile . |
| 23 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 24 | I for one did not get carried away with the Triple Crown hype after the ‘ splendour ’ of the victory over Wales ( for which your publication was equally responsible ) . |
| 25 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 26 | It is a contract of insurance , it 's not an open-ended situation , and , yes , I think that people probably do get carried away with the euphoria of buying the vehicle . |
| 27 | However , do n't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem . |
| 28 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 29 | Some of the energy given off is carried away by the electron , which is detectable , some by the neutrino , which is not . |
| 30 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |