Example sentences of "[am/are] carried [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 2 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 3 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 4 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 5 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 6 | And I 'm carried on the tide |