Example sentences of "who carried the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When Owen had first arrived in the building Yussuf had decided , unilaterally , to be his bearer and now it was a source of great pride to him that he was the one who carried the Mamur Zapt 's messages . |
2 | The faith , shown by the friends of the paralysed man who carried the stretcher , is an active faith . |
3 | On landing , it was Charles who carried the baby-basket off the plane and the nanny carried the bags . |
4 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |
5 | Jones said : ‘ If you look at a war , there was always the lad who carried the flag , or the emblem of a country . |
6 | The plough-witches often wore women 's clothing , which was derived from the mummers ' plays where an old woman called Bessy , accompanied by the fool , was the central character who carried the money box . |
7 | For the most part , however , it was not the democrats who carried the day , but the Whig Founding Fathers , who were as concerned as their British namesakes to establish restraints on the popular will , to protect the interests of the rich and propertied , and to restrict the franchise to property-holders . |
8 | This is essentially the story of two North British Railway branch lines who carried the people of East Fife , together with generations of golfers , to the coast . |
9 | The squire who carried the news to the king at Berkhamsted reached him on the evening of June 24th . |
10 | This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans . |
11 | EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly . |
12 | EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly . |
13 | With his wild dashing looks — aquiline nose , sweeping moustaches and a mop of shining hair — Tritsis looked the very image of the ‘ clepht ’ , the mountain warlords who carried the torch of Greek independence in the last century . |
14 | These would be examples 1 and 4 , where the party who carried the plaintiff 's goods had also issued the bill of lading or had entered into the freight contract with the shipper , whether or not the shipper was the plaintiff . |
15 | And there is a reputation among world stamp-collectors : since the cliffs of Niuafo'ou are almost wholly steep-to and landings are fatally difficult , mail is — or was until very recently — transferred to and from passing ships by swimmers , who carried the outbound post in oilcloth bags and used bamboo poles to retrieve the inbound letters sealed in tin cans . |
16 | Ethel May Nicholson , the woman Jack called ‘ Mud ’ , short for mother which she was n't , was a broad-shouldered woman , though not physically , who carried the family and occasionally her husband when he was too drunk to stand without support . |