Example sentences of "was carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
| 2 | A granite rock was carried up the mountain but over the next 120 years parts of the inscription did get broken away ; the climate at 2,700m can be very severe . |
| 3 | Town 's Roger Charles was carried off the field following a crunch and tackle just following this , but the score remained at two each , so the final result ; Harefield United two , Abingdon Town two . |
| 4 | After Charlie was carried off the aircraft , it was unable to even taxi and I had to be towed off the runway . |
| 5 | ‘ I was carried off the pitch at the end — to be received like that was one of the best feelings I 've experienced in my life . |
| 6 | She was carried down the drive by her grandmother and rushed into the lounge to play with her toys , with a bonfire night cake waiting for her . |
| 7 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 8 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
| 9 | He was carried to the truck . |
| 10 | As her coffin was carried to the grave , Ol' Blue Eyes sang the line : ‘ Start spreading the news , I 'm leaving today . ’ |
| 11 | Tallis had seen the grimacing features as she was carried to the grave . |
| 12 | They watched as the casket was carried to the mouth of the tomb . |
| 13 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 14 | The body of eighty one year old James Moore was carried into the church by his brothers some of his twenty two grandchildren walked behind . |
| 15 | It 's in these areas that the ocean heat is lost or vented to the atmosphere as this heat vent was carried into the ocean in the lower latitudes . |
| 16 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 17 | Left for dead , the body was carried into the monastery by the monks and laid in a tent outside the church , but after midnight Eardwulf was found in the church alive . |
| 18 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 19 | The gamekeeper ran to the nearby camp of the navvies and with the aid of a sheep-hurdle Putt was carried through the village to the manor . |
| 20 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 21 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 22 | In the short term , de Gaulle was carried through the crisis by the personal support of Churchill ( who defended him before the House of Commons ) and by his own reserves of self-assurance . |
| 23 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 24 | As though , however , by an inevitable destiny , International Finance wound its coils through the heart of England , and its venom was carried throughout the bloodstream to the whole Colonial and Imperial system . |
| 25 | The coffin , consisting of a few planks , was carried from the workhouse by other inmates ; it was not allowed in the church , but was met by the parson at the graveside . |
| 26 | Even I shed a tear when the coffin was carried from the church to a recording of Jack Charlton 's ‘ Geordie Sunday ’ . |
| 27 | Following a nasty knee injury against Shrewsbury in November 1984 , when he was carried from the field with his leg cut to the bone , George played again , with massive strapping and padding the following Saturday , and in all the ensuing games , in considerable pain and in spite of his injury . |
| 28 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 29 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 30 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |