Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] [adv prt] [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 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 !
14 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 .
15 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 …
16 Anything else you 'd get as many boxes as you possibly could and carry them out in order to do the job efficiently .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Erm you know it just says about how they carry it out about subjects assumes that er the samples .
20 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 .
21 Betty demonstrates the way they are to tackle the task and the pupils carry it out in unison , at least initially .
22 ‘ 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 ?
23 They carried me back to England in the middle of July .
24 She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself .
29 Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ .
30 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 .
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