Example sentences of "carry to the " in BNC.

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1 Niacin aids blood circulation , which means that protein is carried to the muscles more efficiently , and also helps muscle recovery by carrying waste products away more quickly .
2 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 .
3 Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left .
4 More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long .
5 In another hour she was ready to go , carried to the carriage by her husband .
6 The crown of St Wenceslas and the sacred coronation oils were carried to the High Altar from here too .
7 Thus the 32 over-life-sized bronze head of Augustus found at Meroë ( Sudan ) was detached from its body by Meroitic tribesmen raiding Roman camps in upper Egypt , carried to the site of a temple of victory , and deliberately buried beneath the steps leading into the temple .
8 The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves .
9 Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year .
10 This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion .
11 This piece is carried to the UF position , which we denote by FR →UF .
12 If we apply RU to a jumbled cube , the notation FR → UF means that the piece at the position FR is carried to the position UF .
13 A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour .
14 The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below .
15 Around them lay the litter of kit they had carried to the very top of the big old house ; to cabin 9 , their strange bare room .
16 He was carried to the truck .
17 Blindly we are carried to the abyss of the 21st century without a philosophical air bag to spring out and cushion us on impact .
18 As her coffin was carried to the grave , Ol' Blue Eyes sang the line : ‘ Start spreading the news , I 'm leaving today . ’
19 Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles .
20 The scene of crime exhibits , packed and tagged , would be carried to the police car ; the razor , the crumbs of bread and cheese from the larger room , the fibres from Harry 's clothing , that single burnt matchhead .
21 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 .
22 Plumer 's preparations for the action at Messines , ‘ methodical and patient ’ , were in John Buchan 's words ‘ carried to the pitch of genius ’ .
23 Also , whatever their dissimilarities , they all had the advantage of good geographical definition ( the only exception being France , whose eastern frontier had been carried to the Alps by Napoleon III , but which had lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871 ) .
24 Not knowing about electricity , but knowing about hydraulic systems , Descartes suggested that the control of these reactions in animals was mediated by movements of fluids , initiated in the sensory nerves by stimuli , being carried to the ventricular system of the brain where contact was made with the motor nerves .
25 In model ‘ E ’ one patch is carried west and then south to partially eliminate lobe 3 , as is currently occurring beneath South America , and the other patch is carried to the Pacific rim at 0°N ; 90°W , where it remains ( Fig. 1 ) .
26 The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip
27 Thompson does not say here , in terms , that dialectical materialism has its answer , the class struggle carried to the extreme of revolution — unless we are to read ‘ revolutionising practice ’ as implying it , while sounding something less and , therefore , less disturbing .
28 No real difference from alienation , then ; and given that the outcome whether of alienation or estrangement is to be the class war carried to the point of revolution and expropriation , perhaps the simple understanding is good enough .
29 And certainly precision — unless carried to the ultimate degree , as in Madame Saint-Ange 's Livre de Cuisine or Julia Child 's Mastering the Art of French Cooking — can be more misleading than vagueness .
30 She had been carried to the back of the crowd .
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