Example sentences of "[pers pn] carry [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 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 6 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 7 | In mastering word meanings , children must learn the conventional meanings they carry within the speech community . |
| 8 | There was no Bible except North 's own , which the pilot with some surprise spotted him carrying onto the plane ; an official Bible , autographed by Reagan , went on a trip in October . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And you are both ready for the bazaar , I see , ’ he said , for he had already watched them carry through the packing-cases filled with their work , ready to be transported on Mr Hanson the grocer 's small cart , due to call at Vetch Street at ten o'clock , for them to start setting out the stall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 18 | But the word ‘ plane ’ could not possibly have conveyed to our eighteenth-century ancestors the meaning which it carries at the top of this page . |
| 19 | Sometimes it goes on until dawn or death from exhaustion ; sometimes it carries off the dancer to an unknown destination . |
| 20 | It gathers detritus ( wood , and other forms of cellulose ) which it carries into the heart of its giant nests , and uses as a substrate on which to cultivate fungi , on which it feeds . |