Example sentences of "[noun sg] carry [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle .
2 587 , 596 : ‘ it seems to us that in taking the article from the shelf the customer is indeed assuming one of the rights of the owner — the right to move the article from its position on the shelf to carry it to the check-out . ’
3 Her emotions felt fragmented ; all thought of a businesslike façade to carry her through the afternoon seemed meaningless .
4 At least , she thought as the taxi carried her to the astrologer 's home , she had not had the ordeal of having to explain her bizarre decision to go out to Piers .
5 He asked Esther to stand up , but she could not , so he and Esther 's father carried her onto the settee where she could rest .
6 My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity .
7 The author 's writing style carries you through the journey and technical detail with commendable pace and his footplate experience is clearly in evidence .
8 Ten weeks later , the ambulance team that had driven Elinor from the Nice hospital carried her into the château and up to her bedroom .
9 Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth .
10 Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't
11 Surgeons at Middlesbrough General sewed back on Aaron Solomon 's thumb after his dad carried it to the hospital , packed in ice .
12 That day I was lucky , and the sea carried me to the shore .
13 I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground .
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