Example sentences of "be carry [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adult worms in the larger pulmonary vessels lay eggs which are carried to the capillaries , where they hatch . |
| 2 | More specifically , we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used . |
| 3 | The eggs and larvae are carried in the jaws of workers . |
| 4 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 5 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 6 | Fifty years after the ‘ Souldier 's ’ Bible had been carried in the pockets of the Roundheads to inspire them at Marston Moor and Naseby , appeared a reprint with some additions and alterations . |
| 7 | standard side boards to be carried below the windows of both saloons . |
| 8 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 9 | The scene of crime exhibits , packed and tagged , would be carried to the police car ; the razor , the crumbs of bread and cheese from the larger room , the fibres from Harry 's clothing , that single burnt matchhead . |
| 10 | The Republican tradition lasted into the Empire : ancestor portraits were carried at the funerals of early imperial princes and notables , and both the imperial family and the surviving nobility continued to stress , and indeed enhance , their origins and virtues . |
| 11 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |
| 12 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 13 | The march was headline news : " Women overcome terrorist attack " and banners calling for " Peace and Work " and " Forward Women — the fight is on " were carried by the marchers . |
| 14 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 15 | The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science . |
| 16 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 17 | ( He ) must have experienced , while looking on the unruffled waters ( of a lake ) that the imagination is carried into the recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable ’ . |
| 18 | Niacin aids blood circulation , which means that protein is carried to the muscles more efficiently , and also helps muscle recovery by carrying waste products away more quickly . |
| 19 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 20 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 21 | The Madonna and Child probably do carry the symbolic meaning which he attributes to them ; but if this is so then it is one which much earlier was carried by the representations of Isis nursing Horus , or by the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , herself a lineal descendant of Palaeolithic figurines like the Venus of Willendorf . |