Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 3 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 4 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 5 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 6 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 7 | He had almost forgotten his previous dislike of Dickens , carried away by the opportunities for rhetoric that the Great Man was so unexpectedly granting him . |
| 8 | The cost was exclusively for the benefit of the business and could not be carried forward in the accounts as an asset after the lease expired . |
| 9 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 10 | The Cross leads , carried horizontally on the shoulders of three students , one to each arm , and the other at the foot . |