Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle .
2 And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter .
3 So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months .
4 Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only .
5 And I 'm carried on the tide
6 Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress .
7 The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead .
8 Well it used to be carried on the back and .
9 Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work .
10 At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march .
11 By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road .
12 His widow , Mrs Mercy Rimer , has carried on the tradition these past few years , but this season will be her last .
13 It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’
14 Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll .
15 I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men .
16 As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control .
17 The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure .
18 No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet .
19 Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession .
20 However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity .
21 It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh .
22 The largest single load ever carried on the tramway was this boiler transported from Bispham to Rigby Road in March 1925 .
23 The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand .
24 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman .
25 They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line .
26 A bar will also be carried on the train .
27 By 1942 Greenly was in ill health but still carried on the family model-engineering business .
28 And how are the weights carried on the weight cloth ?
29 Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ?
30 Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours .
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