Example sentences of "[pers pn] carried [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With nimble fingers , Eleanor put the remaining flowers in place before rolling the newspaper into a neat parcel which she carried into the vestry . |
| 2 | And she carried off the title : |
| 3 | Each evening , arriving at a new hotel , she carried from the car one suitcase , one shoulder bag , a striped beach bag and a Guernsey knotted round her shoulders . |
| 4 | By chance he is also the winner of the caption competition we carried in the June issue ! |
| 5 | That 's what is was it was a terrible system there , but that was the system , that was the system they carried through the quarries in all the years that are gone . |
| 6 | The tenants of his lands both here and at Snodland also had to collect blackberries which they carried to the Palace in exchange for grain , the berries were then used in the wine , both as colouring and sweetening . |
| 7 | Originally they were red and white , then green and ivory in the original style ; after the 1936 rebuilding they adopted the cream railcoach livery which they carried throughout the War until 1945 , when they adopted the wartime green livery with broad cream flare . |
| 8 | She nodded , handed it to him and watched as he put her key into one of the locks and the duplicate he carried into the other , turning both simultaneously . |
| 9 | When , in 1908 he challenged a white man , Tommy Burns , for the heavyweight championship of the world , he carried into the ring far more than his gloves and gear : he carried the hopes of a considerable portion of black America . |
| 10 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 11 | He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below . |
| 12 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |