Example sentences of "carried [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a banner carried during a demonstration in York against child slavery , organized by Richard Oastler ( q.v. ) in 1832 . |
| 2 | In pre-Christian times it was carried as a charm against witchcraft , a notion which survived long after the arrival of Christianity . |
| 3 | Costs previously carried as a contribution to woodland maintenance , heritage and amenity will no longer be borne as owners seek to comply with the new requirements . |
| 4 | The Fascists claimed that their name derived from the fasces , bundles of rods carried as a symbol of power by victors of the Roman Empire . |
| 5 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 6 | Pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances carried as a scent or as protection against disease . |
| 7 | Halfway down the length of the tunnel a patten caught an advancing man under the chin so that his alarmed cry was cut off short as he was lifted and carried for a distance of several paces before he fell away . |
| 8 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
| 9 | In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier . |
| 10 | The motion was carried despite a plea by Alfred Caldecott to give ‘ private enterprise the chance first ’ . |
| 11 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
| 12 | A door crashed somewhere up beyond a curtain wall , and the voices of women carried like a peal of bells — melodious , chiming upon one another — into the well of the gallery immediately above . |
| 13 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |
| 14 | So weakened by his privations that at first he had to be carried in a litter , he soon forced himself to re-establish his authority by donning armour and leading crucial assaults himself . |
| 15 | This cam is in turn pinned to the upper arm of the bell crank C. The resulting rotation of the crank about its fixed pivot causes the horizontal portion to rise and fall , lifting link member D and with it the vertically constrained rod member E. The needle carried in a collet at the lower end is thus made to oscillate vertically . |
| 16 | He was being carried in a pram on a shopping trip at Gorse Hill in Swindon when a parked car was shunted onto the pavement , squashing the pram against a wall with such force that the wall collapsed . |
| 17 | When one of the party , a Mrs Samuels , died on the trip , Cook diplomatically disguised the fact from the Arabs and , pretending that she was ill , packed up her body and had it carried in a palanquin until a suitable burial could be arranged . |
| 18 | These are simple small disks made out of magnetic material which are small enough to be carried in a briefcase . |
| 19 | It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow . |
| 20 | Check Plugs are light and compact enough to be carried in a pocket or as part of a tool kit . |
| 21 | The Christ-corpse carried in a glass coffin down Plateros , over the design of doves and flowers and cross made out of petals which had engaged so many all day , and borne round the Plaza de Armas , was one whose wounds gaped , who was chalky-white with blood-loss . |
| 22 | DVI , after all , is a process by which video can be carried in a CD-ROM database . |
| 23 | A cagoule or plastic cape and space blanket should be carried in a knapsack , along with equipment to light a fire and cook a warm , nourishing meal . |
| 24 | She knocked loudly at the door of his room and carried in a tray of caviar . |
| 25 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 26 | Scientists use experiments , especially those which can be carried in a laboratory or under controlled conditions to simplify these interactions . |
| 27 | At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct , built around 1835 , on curving masonry abutments . |
| 28 | Emergency regulations insisted upon immediate burial , and her body was carried to a cemetery outside the town . |
| 29 | Importunity or threats , such as the testator has not the courage to resist , moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet , or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort , these , if carried to a degree in which the free play of the testator 's judgment , discretion or wishes , is overborne , will constitute undue influence , though no force is either used or threatened . |
| 30 | Other authorities cited to us strongly suggest that this is not a good plea unless the earlier case was carried to a conclusion . |