Example sentences of "had carried the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't what Jane had told her that had carried the conversation along as much as what Jane had implied . |
| 2 | I had one from an 80-year-old woman who had carried the secret all her life ’ . |
| 3 | But WS & C as it was now known world wide had carried the development of security to the ultimate . |
| 4 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 5 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 6 | Incidentally the Mirror mentioned that Lee Chapman has a new book out in which he ‘ reveals ’ that Frogslegs left in a huff because he thought he had carried the can for the defeat by Rangers . |
| 7 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 8 | Until the period of Emancipation , only a few isolated individuals had carried the dissent of the ‘ marvellous decade ’ to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 9 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 10 | In addition to the planned introduction of the right to obtain a passport , Myftiu announced that in future defection would be considered as trespass on the country 's borders and not as " betrayal of the homeland " , which had carried the death penalty . |
| 11 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 12 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 13 | It had carried the training serial T20 and evidence of a code ‘ 48 ’ . |
| 14 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 15 | They had carried the body to the nearest house , and found that it was a good-looking young man about twenty-five years old . |
| 16 | They had carried the body away on a rude cart . |
| 17 | He looked at her , defeated , and she saw that she had carried the point , but at a heavy cost . |