Example sentences of "carry [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence .
2 Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible .
3 Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds .
4 The Cross leads , carried horizontally on the shoulders of three students , one to each arm , and the other at the foot .
5 When Seb was beginning to worry about the task , Carrie arrived at the farm , carried there on the back of a horse ridden by her father .
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