Example sentences of "they carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up .
2 In mastering word meanings , children must learn the conventional meanings they carry within the speech community .
3 That 's what is was it was a terrible system there , but that was the system , that was the system they carried through the quarries in all the years that are gone .
4 The tenants of his lands both here and at Snodland also had to collect blackberries which they carried to the Palace in exchange for grain , the berries were then used in the wine , both as colouring and sweetening .
5 Originally they were red and white , then green and ivory in the original style ; after the 1936 rebuilding they adopted the cream railcoach livery which they carried throughout the War until 1945 , when they adopted the wartime green livery with broad cream flare .
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