Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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31 They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform .
32 In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out .
33 It seems to me she makes all the rules and I 'm expected just to carry them out and still be responsible .
34 Authority to carry them out is given to the officials in charge , and rules and regulations are established in order to ensure their achievement .
35 The nursery was the first to offer garden designs and the workmen to carry them out , as well as stocks of all the necessary plants , from forest trees to flowering bulbs and evergreens — especially citrus trees , myrtles , jasmines , and other tender shrubs — for the greenhouse , and fruit trees , vegetables , and everything needed in the kitchen garden .
36 New technology has already enabled an ever-widening range of jobs to be moved out of the office , allowing staff to carry them out from their own homes with obvious benefits in terms of reducing office overheads as well as enabling businesses to recruit from an additional pool of people who , because of location in remote rural areas or conflicting domestic responsibilities , might otherwise be ruled out of employment .
37 And then when they had come about two months old , something like that , er we used to carry them out now , into the woodlands and with the rest of the hens .
38 Mr Mowatt agreed to write an Operations check-list , outlining routine procedures , and how to carry them out , and listing actions needed in the event of problems occurring .
39 I mean , of course they can , they can make all sorts of wild promises and all kinds of crazy policies because they know they 'll never be called upon to carry them out .
40 The fourth factor is that there 's really no point in giving people orders or making up policies or decisions unless the people who receive the orders have the resources to carry them out .
41 Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ?
42 I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave .
43 She was in one of those things Marcus puts me in sometimes to carry me about .
44 Any road , you 'll have to carry me out of here feet first , I reckon . "
45 They should still be there if some animal has n't carried them off , ’ Travis answered , and went out of the door .
46 After the strange indifference of the police investigators to the results of the polygraph examinations of Tuzcu and O'Neill in Frankfurt , and the even stranger attempt by the FBI to intimidate the ex-Army polygraph expert who had carried them out , Juval Aviv had played no further part in the preparation of Pan Am 's defence .
47 I had carried you around inside my mind for years and here was total stranger kissing you . ’
48 She had a duet with him in the latter that she could n't have managed if he had n't carried her through .
49 He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing .
50 Why pretend you 're holding someone hostage when you 've really carried him off ? ’
51 Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ?
52 He 'd carried it around with him , framed by the mirror 's gilt , like some kind of talisman .
53 She had a kind thought and she believed she 'd carried it through , and that 's not uncommon , with someone as sick as she was and in pain a lot of the time .
54 But I have carried it about with me — as I do your photograph , and less worthy things — and I have kept it because it is almost certainly your last message to me .
55 Willed it at least , even though she had not carried it out .
56 Against the odds , he has carried it off .
57 Constanza would have carried it off , casually , lightly : By the way your charming guest the other night — so stupid of me —
58 Christine might have carried it off , but Lucy was feeling cheap and obvious .
59 At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop .
60 Perhaps a bird had carried it down , as the dove had borne the olive branch .
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