Example sentences of "carry [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hero Theseus went down into the underworld to support his friend Pirithous in an attempt to carry off Proserpine , Queen of Hades . |
| 2 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 3 | Explaining , now , more of the past history of Samavia , Lorestan reveals that the Lost Prince has been found , the time has come for the corrupt government to be overthrown and the message must be carried through Europe that ‘ the lamp is lighted ’ . |
| 4 | One 's impetus was such that , provided there was nothing in the way , one would be carried through Bridge Street , right over Patrick 's Bridge , and halfway into Patrick 's Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , before having to put foot to pedal once more . |
| 5 | A deep recession struck and death carried off Alfred Kitching , Charles Ianson and his son , James . |
| 6 | Third to English Oaks winner Intrepidity last time out , Accommodating aims to emulate Kingmambo , Madeleine 's Dream and Hernando who have carried off France 's 1,000 Guineas , 2,000 Guineas and Derby for Boutin and jockey Cash Asmussen . |
| 7 | The APLA is believed also to have carried out Friday 's attack in Johannesburg in which white motorists where riddled with automatic weapons fire by black gunmen . |
| 8 | The river is now carried below Farringdon Street by a sewer . |
| 9 | As Minch was carried past Woil 's cage he said , ‘ Nice Men brought Minch back to us . |
| 10 | The vote was carried against Stokes by a majority of well over two to one ; but Noel-Baker later argued in a letter to Attlee that ‘ the overwhelming majority of the Constituency Party delegates were against ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ and Vansittartism' . |
| 11 | In all , 122,243 tonnes out of a total of 149,990 tonnes of foodstuffs of all kinds was carried into Paris by rail . |
| 12 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 13 | She had to be carried into Afghanistan that fateful summer because she could not face the rigours of the journey and took refuge in illness . |
| 14 | At the closing public session on Saturday , 21 November , there was no applause as a grim-faced pope was carried into St Peter 's . |
| 15 | In 1845 , 40.51 per cent of all passengers carried in Britain were first class , 42.34 per cent second , and 17.15 per cent third . |
| 16 | Similarly , an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers . |
| 17 | Crops appeared where they had not grown before : rubber was carried from Brazil to become the staple of the Malayan economy , and soon to be very important in Indonesia and Ceylon . |
| 18 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 19 | There was no road at that time , and so her coffin was carried from Santo da Serra over the rough mountain tracks to Boaventura . |
| 20 | Beneath them is a freshly lettered gravestone being carried from Sedbergh to Hawes : |
| 21 | Dubbed isoEnet , the technology enables speech and video traffic to be carried over 10Base-T networks by adding 6.144Mbps of isochronous bandwidth to the existing 10Mbps 10Base-T Ethernet . |
| 22 | brought together into indissoluble union our Western theory of Darwin and that strange doctrine of metempsychosis which was carried to Japan with Buddhism … |
| 23 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 24 | From 1368 , when the war was being carried to England by the French as well as by the Scots , royal writs of array were issued ordering the clergy to muster alongside others of the king 's lieges in order to resist his enemies . |
| 25 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 26 | Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand . |
| 27 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 28 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 29 | According to Froissart he had to be carried to Limoges on a litter ; his health deteriorated still further over the winter of 1370 , and in January 1371 he returned to England . |
| 30 | From Chinon Henry 's body was carried to Fontevraud and laid in the abbey church . |