Example sentences of "carried the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one from an 80-year-old woman who had carried the secret all her life ’ . |
| 2 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
| 3 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 4 | Rank , having carried the can on that occasion , then allowed spending on Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) to reach the mind-numbing figure of £1,280,000 , twice as much as The Red Shoes . |
| 5 | He looked at her , defeated , and she saw that she had carried the point , but at a heavy cost . |
| 6 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 7 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |
| 8 | Simple folk might likewise reflect that this is the fourth time the Conservatives have carried the day in elections in the teeth of alleged BBC bias . |
| 9 | Since then only a few have carried the flame in Europe and India , but recently the worldwide growth of homœopathy has started to look again at the LM potencies which Hahnemann describes , in a footnote to 270 as being ‘ the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action i.e. as the most perfected . ’ |
| 10 | But WS & C as it was now known world wide had carried the development of security to the ultimate . |
| 11 | If you happen to do a tour of the caddies ' pubs in Southport , Lancashire you are likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar with four men who have carried the bags in no less than eleven British Open Championship victories . |
| 12 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 13 | These vehicles were supported by steel underframes , mounted on six-wheeled bogies ; from the underframe between the bogies were carried the brake gear and the accumulators for lighting the saloons . |
| 14 | Keeping the bottle in an inverted position Dom Pérignon would have carried the Champagne to the table , before removing the cork and releasing the sediment . |
| 15 | Since the UndergrounD Group took over , the Company 's cars had carried the statutory lettering at the bottom of the rocker panel , but had displayed no badge or fleet name . |
| 16 | For the time being these carried the route number 2 . |
| 17 | The only change affecting the Croydon area was the Greyhound — Thornton Heath route , which had lately carried the number 2 . |
| 18 | This all sounds like dashing stuff , but if his sheer audacity had not carried the day , he would have been unable to defend himself against so many . |
| 19 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 20 | Shearer 's former strike partner Matt Le Tissier should have carried the match ball home last night as the hero who sunk Dalglish 's expensive assembly of stars . |
| 21 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 22 | Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis , but he 'd never carried the vendetta to them . |
| 23 | Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl . |
| 24 | They have both carried the burden of bearing the brunt for Britain in international competition for the last decade and more . |
| 25 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 26 | It had carried the training serial T20 and evidence of a code ‘ 48 ’ . |
| 27 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 28 | Until quite recently the only way to get to Fair Isle was by boat from Shetland , and a succession of island-based craft have carried the name of ‘ Good Shepherd ’ . |
| 29 | In the first twenty-year period , 1951 to 1971 , the News of the World had carried the vast majority of the rape cases which were reported anywhere in the national press ( despite being only a weekly paper ) . |
| 30 | Until the period of Emancipation , only a few isolated individuals had carried the dissent of the ‘ marvellous decade ’ to the point of revolutionary commitment . |