Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv] to [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 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |
| 16 | We have covered more than 12,000 miles together , during which it has won prizes , howled around Switzerland and Italy , been thrashed at Millbrook , and on race tracks and carried me home to Notting Hill through traffic and rain . |
| 17 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1582 the first earl over-reached himself when , in a misguided attempt to gain control over the young king , he and others kidnapped James VI and carried him off to Huntingtower . |
| 20 | Bunny carried her upstairs to Rose Lipman 's office . |
| 21 | He carried her easily to Uncle Philip 's armed chair and settled her down , drawing the electric fire near to her on its cord . |
| 22 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |
| 27 | A change in the tax rules affecting pensions was shortly followed by a job with the Department of Environment 's Property Services Agency , a post which carries him through to March and may see him stay until he is 70 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He has a ready supply , and despite the heavy atmosphere and flat light it carries us out to Langdale . |