Example sentences of "[coord] carried [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 6 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 7 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 8 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 9 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 10 | But her emotions had burnt themselves out , and all she felt as she picked up the cards and carried them through to the kitchen was a dull emptiness , as if the pain she was n't feeling had left a gap . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Curtius took his drink and carried it over to the corner . |
| 13 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 14 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 15 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 16 | He watched the ex-soldier till he was gone , then walked over to his saddle and carried it out to the coach . |
| 17 | Matilda , more bemused than ever now , took the bucket and carried it out into the back garden . |
| 18 | The barman pulled the knot on his bow tie , gave himself a shot of booze , drank it , then gave himself another and carried it out into the garden , strolling away from the orchard and the tufty grass . |