Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv] to [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 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |