Example sentences of "carried [pers pn] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 2 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |
| 3 | We have covered more than 12,000 miles together , during which it has won prizes , howled around Switzerland and Italy , been thrashed at Millbrook , and on race tracks and carried me home to Notting Hill through traffic and rain . |
| 4 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 5 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |
| 6 | In 1582 the first earl over-reached himself when , in a misguided attempt to gain control over the young king , he and others kidnapped James VI and carried him off to Huntingtower . |
| 7 | Bunny carried her upstairs to Rose Lipman 's office . |
| 8 | He carried her easily to Uncle Philip 's armed chair and settled her down , drawing the electric fire near to her on its cord . |
| 9 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 10 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |
| 11 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 12 | He shouldered the mattress and carried it back to Hut 2 , and slung it up onto his bunk , and threw the pillow and blanket after it . |