Example sentences of "[noun] be carried [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 2 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 3 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 4 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 5 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 6 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 7 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 8 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 9 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |