Example sentences of "[pron] carry [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses .
2 Males have instead one X chromosome and one small Y chromosome , which means that on their single X they carry either the red or the non-red gene , but can not have both .
3 They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying .
4 Although the Type 22 frigate is substantially longer than a Type 42 destroyer , it carries neither the sea Dart long-range anti-aircraft missile nor the Vickers Mk 8 gun .
5 It carries forward the interests of women without imposing an undue burden on employers .
6 It carries forward the work of the former ESRC Research Unit on Ethnic Relations at the University of Aston in Birmingham : that Research Unit is now closed .
7 Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district .
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