Example sentences of "[pers pn] be carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was carried off the pitch at the end — to be received like that was one of the best feelings I 've experienced in my life . |
| 3 | She was carried down the drive by her grandmother and rushed into the lounge to play with her toys , with a bonfire night cake waiting for her . |
| 4 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
| 5 | Tallis had seen the grimacing features as she was carried to the grave . |
| 6 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 7 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |
| 8 | Blindly we are carried to the abyss of the 21st century without a philosophical air bag to spring out and cushion us on impact . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Its name derives from the fact that , instead of the eggs being spawned in water and left to their own devices , they are carried by the male wrapped in strings around his legs . |
| 11 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 12 | Penelope saw it being carried in the hand , stiff and furry at one end like a kind of African fly switch . |
| 13 | First , the vector is transformed to a frame in free fall at P and in that frame it is carried across the interval without change of its Cartesian coordinates . |
| 14 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
| 15 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 16 | He was carried to the truck . |
| 17 | Following a nasty knee injury against Shrewsbury in November 1984 , when he was carried from the field with his leg cut to the bone , George played again , with massive strapping and padding the following Saturday , and in all the ensuing games , in considerable pain and in spite of his injury . |
| 18 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 19 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |