Example sentences of "to 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 | The Chalice can be empty if it is too difficult for friends to carry with wine in it . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor man , he 's got a heavy load to carry with Alain gone . ’ |
| 13 | Oxford , after the War and after national service and in spite of the minor irritation of having to carry into Hall private rations of butter and sugar , was a place of freedom . |
| 14 | It is also safer to carry in cans and the engines are more fuel efficient . |
| 15 | With the lightweight Kevins , Sheedy and Brock , to carry in midfield and the dubious luxury of Franz Carr disappearing up blind alleys of his own making out on the wing ( without much of a prayer , unfortunately ) , the burden of battling for central control fell to the overworked Liam O'Brien . |
| 16 | It contains six small apples and has the sort of handle which makes it easy to carry to school or on outings . |
| 17 | Disclose the amount that the directors recommend should be paid as dividend , and the amount they propose to carry to reserves . |
| 18 | This must contain a fair review of the development of the business of the company and its subsidiaries during the financial year and the position at the end of it , must state what amount ( if any ) they recommend should be paid as dividend , and what amount ( if any ) they propose to carry to reserves . |
| 19 | REACTION TO CAMP ROUTINE AND RESPONSIBILITIES : Lenny can be trusted to carry to completion any task given to him . |
| 20 | Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next . |
| 21 | of being shown to the remote valve arrangement , and the fact that they already want to carry over R eight onto R three with minimal changes |
| 22 | On 17 January 1989 , US District Court Judge Thelton Henderson issued an injunction against NMFS ordering the entire US tuna fleet to carry observers , and ordering all US tuna boats operating in the ETP without observers to ‘ immediately return to port or otherwise immediately act to carry on board an official certified observer . ’ |
| 23 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 24 | I had to carry on walking . |
| 25 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 26 | It 's rather heavy and bulky to carry at 10lb 14oz , so is best suited for lowland campsites and ‘ car boot ’ camping . |