Example sentences of "[conj] carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I know is that they all supported the poll tax and they all voted for the guillotines that carried through the poll tax legislation . |
| 2 | Daly promptly hit a shot that carried over the 65ft high netting 280 yards away , the wall that divides the West Berlin that is Augusta National from the East Berlin of Washington Drive , with its mile after mile of burger joints . |
| 3 | Its dimensions are 18½″ ( 47cm ) wide x 19″ ( 48.3cm ) high x 13″ ( 33cm ) deep , and the weight of around 30kg feels reassuringly substantial , yet easily portable , especially if carried in the arms . |
| 4 | Frederica strode grimly up and carried off the Oxford Companions to English and Classical Literature . |
| 5 | This school 's Cadet Corps scored an unique achievement when they participated in the Royal Tournament at Olympia in 1927 , and carried off the Lady West Trophy against fierce competition from other , hearing , Cadet Corps troops . |
| 6 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 7 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 8 | Tracey Morton , 29 , had to undergo five brain operations when she was thrown into the air and carried down the road by the motorbike in High Holborn , London , in August 1988 . |
| 9 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 10 | And yet she had not cried , not even now , when the coffin was to be taken from Summer Lodge and carried to the graveyard on the hill overlooking the sea , could she give way to tears . |
| 11 | PEAT CUTTING Part of the magic of Scotch Whisky is owned to the mysterious qualities of peat , which is cut from the moors and carried to the distilleries . |
| 12 | When these desert shrimps reproduce , the eggs are protected and carried by the female , either in a special sac-like structure as in the brine shrimp , or in a special pouch as in the tadpole shrimp . |
| 13 | The League and Central League trophies , for the first time held by one club , decked with blue and white ribbons , were displayed in the directors ' box and carried round the field at half-time . |
| 14 | A Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament banner was unfurled and carried round the war memorial before one of those carrying it was arrested . |
| 15 | The piggies blushed even pinker than usual as they were hoisted onto the shoulders of their friends and carried round the room . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 17 | It is essential for normal growth and is secreted by the pituitary and carried in the blood to all parts of the body ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 18 | There was a little work to do , fetching and carrying about the kitchens , for which he would get ten shillings a week . |
| 19 | That investment has provided defibrillators for more than 2,300 front-line ambulances across the country and carries through the commitment to provide a trained paramedic on each front-line ambulance by 1996 . |
| 20 | As well as carried in the coal , made the beds , run errands , carried out the slops . |