Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
| 2 | Paul the apostle gives us this assurance : ‘ He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 3 | I always pray with joy being confident of this , that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus . |
| 4 | When one has an office , one should carry it out with courage and firmness ; without being depressed or crawling , one should not merely do what is possible , but should try , dare and risk making the office as beneficent as possible . |
| 5 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 6 | You know that from here on in the best that can be hoped for is a sufficient economic upturn , plus a helpful nudge from the boundary redistributions , to carry you back into power — again probably , with a modest parliamentary majority and all the headaches it brings . |
| 7 | If de Gaulle had adopted an exclusively parliamentary approach , the RPF 's victory in 1951 might have been enough to carry him back to power , but only on the system 's terms . |
| 8 | The Pioneers did not ‘ attempt to carry it on as part of their own activities under the control of the general body of members ’ . |
| 9 | Unionist reactions were twofold , first to play up the war itself as a unifier of classes , and second to exploit divisions in the Labour movement in the hope of carrying them over into peacetime . |
| 10 | Maria was moist , hot and tight about him as he moved powerfully within her , and the exquisite friction of their joining commanded them utterly , carrying them upwards through rapture and beyond to a soaringly ecstatic climax so intense , so comprehensive that Maria felt it expanding to embrace her mind , spirit and emotions . |
| 11 | If they appeared likely to do so he would then map out a strategy and advise students or co-workers on how to refine them and carry them through to fulfilment . |
| 12 | Anything else you 'd get as many boxes as you possibly could and carry them out in order to do the job efficiently . |
| 13 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 14 | It must have been really strange for her , going to a new school all on her own , and a convent school at that , with nuns like great black crows floating down the corridors and carrying her off to chapel . |
| 15 | If an insect blunders into it the owner will rush out , deliver a swift poisoned bite to her victim and then wrap it in bonds of yet a different silk and carry it away for consumption at leisure . |
| 16 | Betty demonstrates the way they are to tackle the task and the pupils carry it out in unison , at least initially . |
| 17 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 18 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 19 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |
| 20 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 21 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |
| 22 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 23 | He shouldered the mattress and carried it back to Hut 2 , and slung it up onto his bunk , and threw the pillow and blanket after it . |
| 24 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |
| 26 | In general , the organization that conceives the idea retains the project , unless it is one which clearly falls outside its remit , and carries it through to completion . |