Example sentences of "carried [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 5 | The sea carried me out to the Hispaniola . |
| 6 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 7 | Some of the men carried you out into the light in the gallery . ’ |
| 8 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 9 | While the bull 's head was low , the bull-leaper might dive between the horns to land , head and hands first , on the bull 's back : momentum carried him on over the bull 's tail , to land on his feet behind the bull . |
| 10 | Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final . |
| 11 | Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final . |
| 12 | He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it . |
| 13 | Using the rock and the darkness as cover , she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 16 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 17 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 18 | Her carried her up to the solar and delivered her over to the care of his sister and Ellen , leaving her with a look in his blue eyes that clearly said later . |
| 19 | Shelley , already on her feet , carried her up to the medical centre with Carlos 's help . |
| 20 | He carried her over to the bench , kicked the dustbin-liner away and set her down gently . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The boy carried her out into the snow and pushed her into the ground , turning her so that she faced the tent and the cluster of trees that formed their crude and failing shelter . |
| 23 | He carried her out of the Manor of Tara , and across the Plain of the Fál , and through the Forest of Darkness . |
| 24 | Even as he carried her out of the lighted kitchen his lips continued to caress her and she was not in any way close to recovering as he placed her on her feet in her own room . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 29 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 30 | Curtius took his drink and carried it over to the corner . |