Example sentences of "carried along [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 2 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 3 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 4 | The basic question at issue in the debate is whether the United Kingdom is to be carried along in the wake of those changes or to be a driving force for change . |
| 5 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |
| 6 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 7 | The expansion of the surface was what was causing the pebbles to move away from hers they were being carried along by the movement of the sheet . |
| 8 | This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction , or the sales patter of a dealer . |
| 9 | And now she was being carried along by the impetus of those two decisions . |
| 10 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |