Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " 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 | A large Biblical map of Solomon 's life lay beneath a quotation from the Book of Chronicles chapter 2 verse 16 : ‘ And we will cut wood out of Lebanon , as much as thou shalt need : and we will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Joppa ; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Pioneers did not ‘ attempt to carry it on as part of their own activities under the control of the general body of members ’ . |
| 10 | They had sufficient education and style to carry it off as gentlemen . |
| 11 | Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research and four were finally selected to carry it out in Swindon , Kirkaldy , Liverpool and Sheffield . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 17 | Anything else you 'd get as many boxes as you possibly could and carry them out in order to do the job efficiently . |
| 18 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The actor is obviously saddened by the prospect that his career is carrying him away from Spain . |
| 21 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 22 | He had expected to sweep Rachel off her feet and carry her off to New Zealand with him on the next sailing , but he had reckoned without her Jewish father and mother , the new Zionism and Rachel herself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Erm you know it just says about how they carry it out about subjects assumes that er the samples . |
| 25 | Yes they 'd like if they were in South Wales , in South Wales you know if your grandfather was a scab , you 'd be a scab would n't you , they carry it out in generations there . |
| 26 | Betty demonstrates the way they are to tackle the task and the pupils carry it out in unison , at least initially . |
| 27 | ‘ You did n't really think some sort of Grandson Richard , 39 , was going to swoop down out of the sky and carry us off to Florida , did you ? |
| 28 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 29 | Once young Catholic theologians began to think for themselves , the excitements of modernity in the wider cultural mood of the 1960s carried them far beyond Congar . |
| 30 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |