Example sentences of "[vb past] carry [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party . |
| 2 | Then Morton helped to carry the equipment in from the growler . |
| 3 | For example , ‘ moment resisting frames ’ — building frames in which columns and beams are rigidly attached and reinforced to carry the building 's load — help stiffen buildings . |
| 4 | These timber works have all been replaced now , but north-west of Devoran , close to the modern viaduct across the river , are the remaining piers of a timber viaduct Brunel built to carry the Truro-Falmouth branch line of the Great Western Railway . |
| 5 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 6 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 7 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 8 | ‘ We helped carry the coal away , and we knew where Peter was getting it . ’ |
| 9 | He quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man disembarked carrying a suitcase which exploded . |
| 10 | Jane was in a junk food café trying to eat chips off a floppy paper plate and drink red wine three-quarters full of ice , when a young man with long hair entered carrying a guitar , ‘ Ugh — do n't like him , ’ said her host 's son , aged sixteen . |
| 11 | She had shuffled forward several places when two soldiers entered carrying a metal milk churn . |
| 12 | The door opened and Jenkins entered carrying a tray . |
| 13 | Gummer having been summarily dismissed , a lugubrious George Gardiner tapped on the door and entered carrying a large parcel , marked ‘ urgent ’ , upon which Lady Thatcher fell with cries of pleasure . |
| 14 | The door opened again and Peggy entered carrying a tray on which there were three drinks . |
| 15 | The lapels of his well-worn suit seemed to carry a permanent sheen from years of dropped ash on worsted . |
| 16 | The Austro-Marxists seemed to carry the argument so far into the nationalist camp that only the distinction between the cultural and the economic preserved internationalism . |
| 17 | By brush and pencil he conveyed in his innumerable studies of this quite ordinary girl , the fragility of an idealized beauty , and the paths of ill health , for in an enfeebled frame she seemed to carry the seeds of consumption . |
| 18 | I thought , and then I happened to go , Jim came to carry the fruit and vegetables for me and when it had opened again , and there was she with this , I looked at Jim and I said ah ! |
| 19 | It was in the next stage , when writing came to carry an increasing proportion of law , learning , religion and history , previously carried in oral forms , that very marked cultural divisions , already socially present in preliterate societies , became , as it were , technically stabilized . |
| 20 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 21 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 22 | The Bf 109G that he remembers and photographed carried the serial RN228 . |
| 23 | However , cultural Russification directly threatened those who claimed to carry the cultural traditions of the minority peoples , from the priesthood to what there was of a modern intelligentsia . |
| 24 | Next a policeman puppet arrived carrying a gallows . |
| 25 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 26 | Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table . |
| 27 | ‘ No , much better recruit your energies , ’ said Anthony , just as David returned carrying a jug of hot water and two slices of lemon on a plate . |
| 28 | Then , as the dogs started baying again , he went back inside the yurt and returned carrying a stockwhip . |
| 29 | A moment later the French boy returned carrying a Mauser .350 slung carelessly over his shoulder . |
| 30 | She had just finished combing her hair when the housekeeper returned carrying a lightweight metal crutch , and began diffidently , ‘ Signorina , I thought perhaps … ’ |