Example sentences of "carry the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman continued with his industrial work , but he had to carry the stigma of the commission 's verdict . |
| 2 | The electroencephalogram ( EEG ) seemed for a while to carry the secret of the soul in its multiple waveforms . |
| 3 | Never mind , what it comes to is that there may well be a sturdy little male to carry the name of Graham proudly into the future . |
| 4 | She was afraid that one of the men who hung around the London termini waiting for girls arriving from the provinces would come up and offer to carry the case for her . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was necessary for the Government to carry the management of those companies with them so that any radical measures to expose the industries to serious restructuring or competition were not on the agenda . |
| 6 | He got some of the men to carry the leather-worker to Zeinab 's flat . |
| 7 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 8 | The importance of such figures in terms of their ability to carry the message of Marxism to working people is suggested by Neruda 's account of how , travelling the nitrate region of Chile as a senator in 1945 , ‘ at hundreds of meetings , all very far away from each other , I heard a constant plea : that I should read my poems . |
| 9 | The continuing work of the Anonymous Fellowships — and the definition of their prime purpose as stated in the 12 Traditions — is to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer . |
| 10 | So haematology because of haemoglobin the red colouring of the erm red cells that carry the oxygen around the body and haemoglobin contains iron which is why when people are short of iron they suffer from anaemia because they 've got en not enough of this red colouring in their blood cells to carry the oxygen around the body . |
| 11 | The previous Bill had passed through Committee and was well advanced ‘ when international affairs so occupied the time of this House that it was impossible to carry the Measure to the Statute Book ’ . |
| 12 | By March 11th the German Air Command was distinctly worried and gave Boelcke , though a mere lieutenant , a carte blanche to carry the fight into the enemy camp . |
| 13 | My idea is to cast as close to the branches as I dare , then allow the current to carry the bait into the roots . |
| 14 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 15 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 16 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 17 | ‘ A whole nation does not have to carry the guilt of a few wrong-doers into perpetuity , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Warren Beatty , as stilted as ever , manages to carry the film from start to finish without ever threatening to manipulate his chiselled features into more than one expression . |
| 19 | Unable to carry the rest of the council with him , Joe Esseff would later resign the chairmanship of the CLAO in disgust , but meanwhile , on 3 March , he took Coleman to Paris to introduce him to Aoun 's senior advisers . |
| 20 | Rose laughed and there was a general scramble to carry the baggage into the house . |
| 21 | It is thought that a sum of about £5,000 will be needed to carry the scheme through successfully and that a membership of 300 would be needed to maintain it on a sound basis . |
| 22 | That the British Gas Executive Share Option Scheme ( ‘ the Scheme ’ ) the rules of which are produced to the Meeting ( and , for the purpose of identification , signed by the Chairman ) be approved and the Directors be authorised to take all necessary steps which they consider necessary or appropriate to carry the Scheme into effect including the submission of the Scheme to the Board of Inland Revenue for approval under Schedule 9 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems unfair that a few farmers should have to carry the cost of the consequences of what is after all a national policy . |
| 24 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |
| 25 | The bottom of the planes dipped into a cut which connected with the Harborough Arm , about 100 yards east from the Foxton Junction , and crossed by a bridge newly constructed to carry the road to Foxton . |
| 26 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 27 | The criticism in question being that he tends to carry the ball under the wrong arm … |
| 28 | Willing volunteers formed teams of helpers to carry the Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham as with hymns and rosaries we trod the Holy Mile , conscious of those many pilgrims who had gone before us . |
| 29 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 30 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |