Example sentences of "[coord] carry [pron] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 2 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 3 | They raid the nest , collect the pupae and carry them back to their own colony . |
| 4 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 6 | One of the less endearing habits of the time , was to remove the head of the principal adversary , and carry it back to their castle , as a grisly trophy of war . |
| 7 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |
| 10 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 11 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 12 | Without another word , he swung her up into his arms and carried her back to her blanket beneath the tree . |
| 13 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 14 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 15 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 16 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 17 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 18 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When the mice had scattered across the carpet and melted into the shadows by the wainscoting , Alexandra picked up their home of five days and carried it back to her tower room . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |