Example sentences of "carried the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the time being these carried the route number 2 . |
| 2 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 3 | I had one from an 80-year-old woman who had carried the secret all her life ’ . |
| 4 | I have n't carried the exercise out but I would simply say that it 's it 's not valid to do an exercise like this in the way that this is done . |
| 5 | If you happen to do a tour of the caddies ' pubs in Southport , Lancashire you are likely to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar with four men who have carried the bags in no less than eleven British Open Championship victories . |
| 6 | The stretched limousine is reputed to have carried the likes of Sammy Davis Jnr around Hollywood and Las Vegas . |
| 7 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 8 | Until the period of Emancipation , only a few isolated individuals had carried the dissent of the ‘ marvellous decade ’ to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 9 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 10 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |
| 11 | Simple folk might likewise reflect that this is the fourth time the Conservatives have carried the day in elections in the teeth of alleged BBC bias . |
| 12 | This all sounds like dashing stuff , but if his sheer audacity had not carried the day , he would have been unable to defend himself against so many . |
| 13 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 14 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 15 | Rank , having carried the can on that occasion , then allowed spending on Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) to reach the mind-numbing figure of £1,280,000 , twice as much as The Red Shoes . |
| 16 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 17 | Incidentally the Mirror mentioned that Lee Chapman has a new book out in which he ‘ reveals ’ that Frogslegs left in a huff because he thought he had carried the can for the defeat by Rangers . |
| 18 | And it would be sad if Clough , who has always carried the standard for fine football , went out of the game a beaten man . |
| 19 | But WS & C as it was now known world wide had carried the development of security to the ultimate . |
| 20 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 21 | Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl . |
| 22 | Until quite recently the only way to get to Fair Isle was by boat from Shetland , and a succession of island-based craft have carried the name of ‘ Good Shepherd ’ . |
| 23 | Since 1986 the awards have carried the name of Cellnet . |
| 24 | Keeping the bottle in an inverted position Dom Pérignon would have carried the Champagne to the table , before removing the cork and releasing the sediment . |
| 25 | It was n't what Jane had told her that had carried the conversation along as much as what Jane had implied . |
| 26 | He also realized that he had himself unwittingly carried the disease from one midwifery patient to another . |
| 27 | He had not dealt with the bishop 's weak points nor , according to Hooker , had he carried the audience with him . |
| 28 | These vehicles were supported by steel underframes , mounted on six-wheeled bogies ; from the underframe between the bogies were carried the brake gear and the accumulators for lighting the saloons . |
| 29 | Anyway , periodical cicadas have carried the mayfly trend to an extreme . |
| 30 | Shearer 's former strike partner Matt Le Tissier should have carried the match ball home last night as the hero who sunk Dalglish 's expensive assembly of stars . |