Example sentences of "carry [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being unsuitably clothed and improperly trained often resulted in their having to be carried off the fell and revived on the village green . |
| 2 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 3 | True , Old Vic has carried off the French and Irish Derbys , but Michelozzo 's success in the substitute St Leger has been his only major English strike . |
| 4 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 5 | The numeral ‘ 5 ’ was carried in the centre and the dates were shown as 1901–02 . |
| 6 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 7 | He had to be carried from the field and the club immediately cancelled their flight bookings for the Scot as a precaution . |
| 8 | The casket was cast into the river Nile nearby in the hope it would be carried down the river and finally out into the Mediterranean Sea to be lost for ever . |
| 9 | The note of anger carried to the groups and couples passing by , provoking amusement and raised eyebrows . |
| 10 | Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles . |
| 11 | A small crowd had gathered and she had been carried across the street and inside the nearest shop in order to get her out of the sun . |
| 12 | This condition can relate to the value of the properties carried by the events and to the number of occurrences of the events . |
| 13 | Disease strikes the cattle , and skin infection breaks out on man and beast , carried by the frogs and insects ( 9:1–12 ) . |
| 14 | The costs of outbreeding may include the risks of infections from pathogens carried by the partner and the breaking up in the offspring of co-adapted complexes of genes found in the parents . |
| 15 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 16 | ‘ If a video producer records live sound when filming , then the ‘ storyline ’ is bound to be carried by the commentary and you end up with a talk illustrated by pictures . |
| 17 | The Company 's contacts with its parent force had been slight , and transmissions from their 109 wireless set ( see Appendix 5 ) would not carry across the mountains and headlands to Koebang . |
| 18 | It is effective when read aloud , where the voice can be used to carry over the syntax and sense . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm a great delegator , but it is important to delegate to those who are capable of carrying through the task and you must have a good report-back system . ’ |
| 20 | Would the sound of that diabolical symphonic flush carry that diabolical symphonic flush carry into the Abbey and create a major embarrassment for the British Monarchy ? |
| 21 | It was Harold F. Brooks , a colleague of Hardy 's at Birkbeck College , who contributed to the debate on English studies at Cambridge carried by the press and other media early in 1981 , by complaining that " much of the resort to " isms and " ologies " amounts to " duncery " , and is thus " a menace to the commonwealth of letters , and so to civilization " . |