Example sentences of "carried [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As flagship of the quartet , N185 carried aboard the then Secretary of State for Air , Sir Samuel Hoare .
2 I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 .
3 The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding , with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church .
4 The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services .
5 The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease .
6 To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact .
7 You will now appreciate the load I have carried for the greater part of my life .
8 Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations .
9 Edward I also became involved with the Scots by claiming the right of arbitration between the rivals for the Scottish throne , at the end of 1290 , and he installed a puppet government in the lowlands of Scotland and carried off the traditional coronation stone from Scone , transporting it to Westminster .
10 Coal for the mill 's steam engine was carried up the steep hill on donkeys .
11 The coffin was carried into a small sitting-room and Gabriel was left alone with it .
12 Fifteen ships of the line , caught by the flood-tide , were carried into the unprotected bays of Cherbourg and La Hogue , where , on Sunday 22 May , Russell at last caught up with them .
13 Hayboxes were being carried into the principal rooms by the Mess staff , direct from the cooks back in the château .
14 ‘ It was all cooked together , Inspector , but that for the high table was placed there , ’ Auguste explained , pointing to a corner table , ‘ and the rest was carried into the other kitchen , which is usually used for the preparation of food and storage .
15 The aldermanic principle was carried into the new county councils , and there were other indications that power would not easily be dispersed : ‘ the provisions for decentralisation … were whittled away , and in the end very little was left of the grand scheme of devolution ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:207 ) .
16 This combination of class and status was carried into the twentieth century .
17 As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies .
18 During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination .
19 unc The numerator carried into the tenths column leaves a remainder which is carried into the hundredths column .
20 unc The numerator carried into the tenths column leaves a remainder which is carried into the hundredths column .
21 The murmur of chanting voices carried above the far-distant thunder of the Grand Trunk Road , the old Mughal highway linking the farms of the Punjab with the bazaars of Delhi .
22 Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element .
23 The glider circled the escarpment and was carried with the warm air currents into the upper atmosphere .
24 They were being carried along a man-made gorge — a yellow road of sandstone flags between two red cliffs of plastered wall which sloped inward at the top , towards the building they were encircling .
25 Three swords and two sceptres were carried before the English king at his coronation in 1189 : the sceptre with the cross probably signifying power and justice , the sceptre with the dove , equity and mercy , while the three swords may have been associated singly with authority , mercy and justice .
26 The remaining two men received sentences of nine months ( suspended for two years ) for allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle .
27 Two youths will appear at Sutton Coldfield Youth Court , West Midlands , today accused of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance .
28 The youths , aged 15 and 16 , were remanded by magistrates at Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , on charges of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance .
29 He admitted burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car and was jailed for 21 months yesterday by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court .
30 He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car .
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