Example sentences of "carries [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As his voice carries through the vast auditorium , the piped music cowers against such formidable odds .
2 That investment has provided defibrillators for more than 2,300 front-line ambulances across the country and carries through the commitment to provide a trained paramedic on each front-line ambulance by 1996 .
3 This must be settled quite soon after the birth , for the christened child carries for the whole of its life a record of its parents ' religious belief .
4 When they have finished their work on one body , they activate the conveyor which carries off the completed body and pulls in another from the buffer store .
5 The unresponsive hearer Satan carries off the word giving the person no chance to respond .
6 Sometimes it goes on until dawn or death from exhaustion ; sometimes it carries off the dancer to an unknown destination .
7 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 .
8 It was of this golden apple that Virgil , most learned in heroic antiquities , made the golden bough Aeneas carries into the Inferno or Underworld . ’
9 ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea when you know it 's dangerous ’ ( quoted by B. J. Wagner , 1976 , p. 59 ) , muses Mrs. Heathcote to a class of children who are into a drama about pirates — and she from then on carries at the back of her mind the possibility that through the subsequent experience these children might understand something of what drives people to face dangers .
10 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 .
11 He joined the Company as a malt packer in 1966 , which in those days involved loading malt in bags onto lorries and railway carries at the nearby station .
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