Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the lifeboat and casualty were being carried astern by the wind and tide , so power was increased in order to make headway . |
| 2 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 3 | In June and July there were the ‘ strawberry specials ’ , 30 tonnes of strawberries being carried daily by the Midland Railway from the Vale of Evesham to London . |
| 4 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 5 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 6 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 7 | MARTIN PIPE was last night refusing to get carried away about the Gold Cup prospects of Rushing Wild . |
| 8 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 9 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 10 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 11 | The secret is not to get carried away with the yumminess of it all and order too much . |
| 12 | It is a contract of insurance , it 's not an open-ended situation , and , yes , I think that people probably do get carried away with the euphoria of buying the vehicle . |
| 13 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 14 | But do not get too carried away with the idea of a gimmicky photograph . |
| 15 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 16 | It 's all too easy to get carried away with the business of everyday life , and to put your own requirements tot he bottom of the pile . |
| 17 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 18 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 20 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 22 | However , do n't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem . |
| 23 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 24 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 25 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 26 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 27 | Trainer Gilpin echoed that view when claiming after the race that Dillon had disobeyed his instructions — ‘ No doubt he was carried away by the excitement . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 29 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 30 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |