Example sentences of "carry [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 2 | Diabetes is quite a burden to carry through life . ’ |
| 3 | Hermann made great efforts to carry through reforms in his diocese and , as a result , was eventually summoned before both Emperor and Pope , deposed and excommunicated . |
| 4 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
| 5 | For Sealink Ferries claimed it was too dangerous to carry as cargo . |
| 6 | FEAR : Sealink said beach mud was too dangerous to carry as cargo |
| 7 | Mrs Gaskell 's account is comparatively anodyne : ‘ a little paved court having the backs of the houses at the end opposite to the opening , and a gutter running through the middle to carry off household slops , washing suds , & c . ’ |
| 8 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 9 | The hero Theseus went down into the underworld to support his friend Pirithous in an attempt to carry off Proserpine , Queen of Hades . |
| 10 | KATJA Seizinger lost her skis in a dramatic last-gate tumble but remained on course to carry off skiing 's supreme prize . |
| 11 | At best they had a few lectures in coastal pilotage before joining the minor craft — those carried aboard ships . |
| 12 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 13 | By the twentieth century , the hegemony of government in the political process ensured that measures could be carried through Parliament without too much difficulty . |
| 14 | She was so chuffed that the blush and the smile carried through lunchtime and well into the evening . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | To be able to recognize opportunities for self-actualization is a basic skill that can be carried through life ’ ( 1978 , p. 170 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On scheduled flights sporting equipment may be carried as part of your baggage allowance . |
| 19 | since they are carried as genes in the sex chromosomes . |
| 20 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 21 | Does he think weapons are carried for effect ? |
| 22 | The existence of the railways also opened up the Continent , and Hamburg and Rotterdam served as terminal stations on a network of lines running to Austria , Hungary , and Poland , along which livestock was carried for export . |
| 23 | Cranston whispered to the friar , though his voice carried for yards around them . |
| 24 | Section 18 penalizes the possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime or to resist arrest : this is a more specific variation of section 16 , catering for the defence that the firearm was being carried for use in a robbery but with no intention that it would actually be used to endanger anyone , only to frighten — that would be a section 18 offence . |
| 25 | A deep recession struck and death carried off Alfred Kitching , Charles Ianson and his son , James . |
| 26 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had carried off children . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The river is now carried below Farringdon Street by a sewer . |