Example sentences of "[pron] carry the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the back streets that lead towards Victor 's place I carry the dead weight in my carrier bag , and I feel rootless . |
| 2 | It is grade 2 , and especially grade 3 , obesity , which carry the greatest risk to health . |
| 3 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |
| 4 | On Hewitt 's account , it is Creole which carries the symbolic values of ethnicity and culture , for both its black and white speakers , while the " multi-racial vernacular " serves as a common community language , the " ordinary English " of the symbolic " Creole " / " ordinary English " dichotomy . |
| 5 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |
| 6 | So the Federal Reserve board , which carries the main responsibility for general oversight over credit legislation , judges that credit scoring is the most accurate way of discriminating between good and bad payers . |
| 7 | Thirty years old — five years older than Richard — she carried the unmistakable air of not being easily impressed by anything , or anyone . |
| 8 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |
| 9 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 10 | It generally consists of the temporal and modal exponents of the verb , which are ‘ the transitional element par excellence : They carry the lowest degree of CD within the non-theme and are the transition proper ’ ( Firbas , 1986 : 54 ) . |
| 11 | Mina and Kāli covered their hair with their oldest shawls and , struggling together , slopping the contents , they carried the heavy pans into the house . |
| 12 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
| 13 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water . |
| 15 | He carried the dead toad into the overgrown garden . |
| 16 | Roseburn Bridge originally dates from 1899 , when it carried the Caledonian Railway from Slateford to West Granton . |
| 17 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 18 | It s vital that the school has an agreed policy on equal opportunities and that it carries the wholehearted support of both governors and staff . |
| 19 | The use of on approval copies and of information from library suppliers is increasingly common , though it carries the major disadvantage of leaving the selection process to commercial organizations whose main aim is to make money ( see pp.118–21 ) . |