Example sentences of "to carry a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used to carry a stick with |
| 2 | Dr Boris Zhurid , director of the Aquamarine Dolphinarium in Sebastopol , said yesterday that the floating oceanarium , once completed , would comprise a tug with three swimming pools to carry a variety of sea animals . |
| 3 | Designed to carry a crew of five the new flying-boat was named Sydney and serialled N241 . |
| 4 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 5 | Mobile shops are literally ‘ shops on wheels ’ — vans converted to carry a range of goods , from fruit and vegetables to hardware . |
| 6 | He said that they would be subject to the same collective discipline , would be able to carry a majority in the Commons and would be able to sustain the short-term unpopularity of some of the decisions that might be necessary to get the economy moving again . |
| 7 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 8 | The oldest surviving bridge is an iron one built in 1824 to carry a by-road across the New River from the A10 to Great Amwell village . |
| 9 | Some people prefer to carry a stove in an outside pocket , particularly if it is liquid-fuelled , to prevent other gear from becoming contaminated . |
| 10 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 11 | Already making her way around the house , she came to the front and asked a footman to carry a message to Rose Alderley . |
| 12 | This time Wayans , a pleasing enough individual with a huge , flashing smile , attempts to carry a movie on his own . |
| 13 | Everyone had to carry a gas-mask at all times , and an air-raid practice was held on that first afternoon . |
| 14 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 15 | The Conservatives there will be lucky to have enough members to carry a caber after Thursday , yet with proportional representation they would have at least 15 seats . |
| 16 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 17 | Here the drive must be straight and of passable length to carry a swathe of gorse and rough . |
| 18 | He was reputed to carry a copy of Philip Guedalla 's biography of Palmerston around with him . |
| 19 | Unlike many other countries , young people in Britain , are not required to carry a form of identification . |
| 20 | I guess they are thin , but again Argentines do n't like their horses to carry a lot of weight . ’ |
| 21 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 22 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 23 | The same hand tapped Charlie on the shoulder a moment later , and off he ran , faster than he had ever run before , despite having to carry a rifle in one hand and a pack on his back . |
| 24 | Because of this growing interest , current food labelling regulations require nearly all foods composed of more than one ingredient to carry a list of ingredients . |
| 25 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 26 | a private hire vehicle which is being used to carry a passenger for hire ; |
| 27 | And high frequencies must be used to carry a number of TV channels because each is 8 MHz wide and they are ‘ stacked ’ one over the other in the frequency spectrum . |
| 28 | Under the 1953 Act , it is an offence to carry a weapon in a public place unless you have permission or a good reason , and the onus is on the carrier to show that they have one or the other . |
| 29 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 30 | very smart answer to that but erm I 've got to carry a shotgun in one hand and handcuffs in the other and still deal with en e eventuality , I just ca n't do it . |