Example sentences of "carried [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At best they had a few lectures in coastal pilotage before joining the minor craft — those carried aboard ships . |
| 2 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 3 | By the twentieth century , the hegemony of government in the political process ensured that measures could be carried through Parliament without too much difficulty . |
| 4 | She was so chuffed that the blush and the smile carried through lunchtime and well into the evening . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | To be able to recognize opportunities for self-actualization is a basic skill that can be carried through life ’ ( 1978 , p. 170 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On scheduled flights sporting equipment may be carried as part of your baggage allowance . |
| 9 | since they are carried as genes in the sex chromosomes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Does he think weapons are carried for effect ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Cranston whispered to the friar , though his voice carried for yards around them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A deep recession struck and death carried off Alfred Kitching , Charles Ianson and his son , James . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They had carried off children . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The river is now carried below Farringdon Street by a sewer . |
| 21 | As Minch was carried past Woil 's cage he said , ‘ Nice Men brought Minch back to us . |
| 22 | The vote was carried against Stokes by a majority of well over two to one ; but Noel-Baker later argued in a letter to Attlee that ‘ the overwhelming majority of the Constituency Party delegates were against ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ and Vansittartism' . |
| 23 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 24 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 25 | In all , 122,243 tonnes out of a total of 149,990 tonnes of foodstuffs of all kinds was carried into Paris by rail . |
| 26 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 27 | These clauses unilaterally abrogated Spain 's 1851 Concordat with Rome and , when carried into law during the next eighteen months , signalled an all-out legislative assault upon the Church 's influential position within Spanish life . |
| 28 | It was an age when Russian soldiers still carried into battle and jealously guarded the picture of the tsar , when Englishmen could still respond emotionally to the title ‘ king-emperor ’ ; yet it was also one in which assassination had become an occupational hazard of royalty . |
| 29 | The Goblin is almost completely unaware of what is happening around him , and he has to be carried into battle by his mates . |
| 30 | Firm acknowledgement and containment of what are natural , but could be dangerous , feelings in childhood offer a useful blueprint to be carried into marriage . |