Example sentences of "[conj] carry [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 2 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 3 | She drew the pan of milk off the fire and carrying it over to the table , quickly poured it into a pint pot into which she had already spooned a generous measure of treacle . |
| 4 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 5 | Yes , you can put them in bags and carry them out to the bin . |
| 6 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 7 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 8 | She 's not comi oh what do you want me to do , pick her up and carry her over to the house ? |
| 9 | With much huffing and puffing , the beetles managed to lift the pebble and carry it over to the professor 's circle . |
| 10 | He 'd fill it and carry it up to the wood in the blanket . |
| 11 | When the radiator is empty , undo the other coupling and stuff tissue paper or rag into the radiator inlets , to stop sludge dripping out as you lift the radiator off its brackets and carry it out of the house . |
| 12 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 13 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 14 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 15 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |
| 16 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 17 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 18 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 19 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 20 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 21 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 22 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 23 | But her emotions had burnt themselves out , and all she felt as she picked up the cards and carried them through to the kitchen was a dull emptiness , as if the pain she was n't feeling had left a gap . |
| 24 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 25 | Curtius took his drink and carried it over to the corner . |
| 26 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 27 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 28 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 29 | He watched the ex-soldier till he was gone , then walked over to his saddle and carried it out to the coach . |
| 30 | Matilda , more bemused than ever now , took the bucket and carried it out into the back garden . |