Example sentences of "[be] carry [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blindly we are carried to the abyss of the 21st century without a philosophical air bag to spring out and cushion us on impact . |
| 2 | More specifically , we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used . |
| 3 | The eggs and larvae are carried in the jaws of workers . |
| 4 | Viruses are carried in the seawater from sewage outfalls , and while some may only cause minor stomach upsets , others , including coxsachie and echo viruses , could lead to hepatitis , meningitis and quasi-paralytic disorders . |
| 5 | The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves . |
| 6 | She had been carried to the back of the crowd . |
| 7 | Also , whatever their dissimilarities , they all had the advantage of good geographical definition ( the only exception being France , whose eastern frontier had been carried to the Alps by Napoleon III , but which had lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871 ) . |
| 8 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 9 | On his instructions his luggage had already been carried to the Citron by the congaie . |
| 10 | The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids . |
| 11 | Within the mud is a scattering of angular boulders — rock fragments that have been carried from the land by icebergs and dropped as the bergs weather and melt . |
| 12 | Fifty years after the ‘ Souldier 's ’ Bible had been carried in the pockets of the Roundheads to inspire them at Marston Moor and Naseby , appeared a reprint with some additions and alterations . |
| 13 | standard side boards to be carried below the windows of both saloons . |
| 14 | And would how would the would the the coffin be carried to the churchyard in those days ? |
| 15 | The blue and yellow theme will be carried through the summer by lobelias , marigolds and dahlias . |
| 16 | Many of the regulars left in the country were stationed , as a central reserve , in the Isle of Wight , ready to be carried round the coast by transports anchored at the Nore — the same craft that made the French fearful of sudden landings on their own coastline . |
| 17 | The importance of information about steady-state values should be emphasised , as well as the need for these values to be carried by the patient at all times . |
| 18 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 19 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 20 | Proposals were carried for the creation of " broad committees " , " Leagues of Young Chartists " and similar groups to attract those " who will not go all the way with the Minority Movement " . |
| 21 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 22 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |
| 23 | The ground was split and vast chunks of rock were carried into the sky by the rising tide of magic . |
| 24 | Under the codename Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ twenty-four Hurricanes and twenty-six pilots were carried towards the island on ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 25 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 26 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 27 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 28 | A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction . |
| 29 | It is found in the intermuscular connective tissue of the thorax and back , the eggs being carried in the bloodstream to the lungs , where they hatch and are coughed up and swallowed . |
| 30 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |