Example sentences of "carry the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital . |
| 2 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 3 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 4 | His first novel , Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) , sets up a ludicrous adventure plot in which two ‘ heroes ’ attempt to carry the mummified remains of Jesus ( seized from t base for a whole series of chronological divergences and a parallel plot in which a zoo and hot-dog joint , together , are established as the roadside attraction to the title . |
| 5 | However , cultural Russification directly threatened those who claimed to carry the cultural traditions of the minority peoples , from the priesthood to what there was of a modern intelligentsia . |
| 6 | The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 7 | The received waves are called radar echoes and they can carry the various categories of information that can be borne by any em wave , as outlined in section 3.1.2 , though planetary temperatures can not normally be extracted by radar . |
| 8 | The abuse rises to a crescendo twice a day , at 7.30am and 4.30pm , when double-decker buses carry the new recruits to and from work , their faces covered with balaclavas and newspapers in order to conceal their identities . |
| 9 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 10 | Verses 1–20 : the Kohathites are responsible for carrying the sacred objects of the sanctuary after the priests have dismantled and covered them . |
| 11 | This is the type of work which has long term duration , carrying the associated industries through peaks and troughs of consumer demand and varying world trends , and was the back-bone of the industrial stability we enjoyed in the past . |
| 12 | Outside a wind had sprung up , gently moaning through the trees , carrying the distant shrieks of the night creatures from the dark forest beyond the walls . |
| 13 | Forever Onward through contraceptive devices and old sticks , carrying the good words to new and freshly rotting society , signalling the path of Entertaining Effervescence and weaving artistic patterns of dirty foam while endeavouring to avoid and repel all hellish floating things that do seek to sink its buoyant ideals . |
| 14 | Two of the musicians , carrying the usual cans of Gold Label , pop their heads in and shout : ‘ Break a leg , gang . ’ |
| 15 | Large as icebergs they drifted off to the north carrying the remaining followers of the Witch King . |
| 16 | ‘ This appears to be miniature cricket bat , ’ he said , ‘ carrying the miniature signatures of a pygmy team . |
| 17 | Those carrying the disabling genes of schizophrenia , manic depression and low intelligence may constitute ten more per cent of the US or European population . |
| 18 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 19 | Of course anyone who has ever attended one of these checks knows that the vehicle examiners , with practised eyes , pull into the checks those lorries carrying the tell-tale signs of overloading or defects . |
| 20 | Mina and Kāli covered their hair with their oldest shawls and , struggling together , slopping the contents , they carried the heavy pans into the house . |
| 21 | This is heated and steam carries the essential oils into a condenser and then a separator . |
| 22 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 23 | On Hewitt 's account , it is Creole which carries the symbolic values of ethnicity and culture , for both its black and white speakers , while the " multi-racial vernacular " serves as a common community language , the " ordinary English " of the symbolic " Creole " / " ordinary English " dichotomy . |
| 24 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |