Example sentences of "carry down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send .
2 Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp .
3 In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor .
4 I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital .
5 The lift doors closed across his exclamation of relief and frustration and he was carried down to the ground floor .
6 The risk of disease being carried down into the soil could be extremely serious .
7 This ensures that adhesive is carried down into the hole
8 They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank .
9 The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood .
10 She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall .
11 In the same spirit he supervised the harnessing of the horses , the carrying down of the dressing-case and boots and clothes and papers , the safe depositing of the plate and linen and two locked trunks — it was the hour for promenading in Keswick and Mr Wood 's conducting of this orchestra was not to go unremarked .
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