Example sentences of "carry [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 2 | Only then did he carry him back to the entrance . |
| 3 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 4 | And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside . |
| 5 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 6 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 7 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 8 | I did n't want to have to keep carrying her back to the same perch for the rest of her life , although she did occasionally fly to the perch herself , she was so used to it . |
| 9 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 10 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 11 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 12 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 13 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 14 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |
| 15 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 16 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 17 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 18 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 19 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 20 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 21 | Then , carefully shielding the flame with his cupped hand , he carried it back to the village . |
| 22 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 23 | As soon as they are born , she takes them into her huge jaws where they lie in pouches as she carries them back down the river . |