Example sentences of "carry a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 2 | Although he could only guess at the enemy 's destination Hawke did not hesitate , as his despatch to the Admiralty next day confirms : ‘ I have carried a press of sail all night , with a hard gale at south-south-east , in pursuit of the enemy , and make no doubt of coming up with them at sea or in Quiberon Bay . ’ |
| 3 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 4 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 5 | Our matches with local rivals like Miserden ( Slad Exiles ) , Painswick , Bisley , Birdlip and Cranham usually carried a bit of added competitiveness . |
| 6 | Why cut off one hand ? the Doctor wondered , before the reason struck him : the man must have carried a briefcase or similar object cuffed to his wrist , and his assailants had n't been willing to expend time on subtleties like lockpicking . |
| 7 | Blank-faced office blocks reared around them ; everyone else carried a briefcase and a daily paper . |
| 8 | In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb . |
| 9 | Her eyes were dark and luminous and her faintly olive skin normally carried a dusting of colour , high on her cheekbones . |
| 10 | From well ordered stores were carried a selection of papers neatly cut and precisely positioned , alongside such items as pens , pins and paint rags . |
| 11 | For example , a Sunday newspaper recently carried a column entitled ‘ A Book that Changed Me ’ in which the playwright David Edgar extolled George Steiner 's The Death of Tragedy , a book he was introduced to by a programme note for a production of King Lear . |
| 12 | Each foot soldier also carried a bow , twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment . |
| 13 | At any rate we were informed that the Chief Whip had carried a document to the sick Prime Minister showing the majority preference . |
| 14 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 15 | Since Merymose 's death , Huy had carried a dagger . |
| 16 | If these are correct , it is quite possible for 42313 to have carried a shed code 11c after nationalisation , but impossible under LMS ownership . |
| 17 | Last year congress carried a motion on racism and fascism expressing its alarm at the rise of fascism and racism in Germany and France this has always been a trade union issue . |
| 18 | Four years ago , the Apex conference carried a motion from my branch seeking the continuation of the old Apex rule , providing for Gold badgers at retirement , for members with twenty five years continuous membership . |
| 19 | Slackness in the official compilation and in-between-election-activity by the Labour Party has always carried a penalty of up to 10 per cent for Labour , but what emerged from a comparison of the electorates of 1987 and 1992 in the six Edinburgh constituencies was a drop of 14,737 electors . |
| 20 | Success at Wimbledon would have carried a £150,000 bonus , which Regal were offering for victory in both derbies , but the owner has refused the opportunity . |
| 21 | ( Marco Polo is known to have carried a number of goldfish with him in case his lodestone ever broke down . |
| 22 | The two bodies labelled A and B in Fig. 2.3 carry corner cube mirrors C A A and C B while B also carried a beam splitter S. These optical components are used as elements of a Michelson interferometer ; the source is a stabilized He-Ne laser and the detector is a p-i-n photodiode . |
| 23 | The atmosphere in Lancashire has carried a whiff of gunpowder since the furore over ‘ derogatory statements ’ from certain players in a new book , Wasim and Waqar : Imran 's Inheritors . |
| 24 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 25 | Moreover , they argued , very similar provision in day nurseries already carried a charge . |
| 26 | His work has taken him by car to all parts of this wide and pictorially exciting area , and I suspect that lie has carried a notebook with him and jotted down impressions of darkening moors and sunset skies on his way home to Long Preston . |
| 27 | Although a very early copy of 32V may have carried a copyright notice , it was removed based on the then-prevailing legal opinion that a copyright notice implied general circulation which , if true , would taint 32V 's trade secret protection . |
| 28 | Unix Labs ' lawyers claim that the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not . |
| 29 | Although a very early copy of 32V may have carried a copyright notice , it was removed based on the then-prevailing legal opinion that a copyright notice implied general circulation which , if true , would taint 32V 's trade secret protection . |
| 30 | USL claims the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not . |