Example sentences of "[adv] carried [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Also being treated is a twenty-one year old woman who was travelling in the stolen car , and was apparently carried from the scene of the accident by the car 's driver .
2 Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room .
3 In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier .
4 The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip
5 At the same time , it is the responsibility of the teacher to watch the situation carefully , in the light of his understanding of his students , in order to see that this withholding of reward is not carried to the point where the student feels discouraged .
6 Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left .
7 Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV .
8 It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down .
9 This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race .
10 I was nearly knocked down the steps then nearly carried up the steps then nearly trampled upon then nearly asphyxiated then completely ambushed engulfed surrounded then wholly abandoned .
11 His voice now carried across the quay to the boat , interfering with the sombre piped music .
12 This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself .
13 Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles .
14 FIG. 1 Flux expulsion creates a pair of flux patches of opposite polarity at the core surface ; they are then carried by the core flow .
15 It may be the spontaneous result of exposing the virus to the general chemical environment of the cell ; or specific enzymes , either carried by the virus or present in the cell , might catalyse the break-up .
16 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 .
17 A wand tipped with a pine cone was commonly carried by the god or his worshippers .
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