Example sentences of "carried [pron] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 8 | Then his hands came around her and gently he lifted her and carried her back to the bed . |
| 9 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 10 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 11 | Then , carefully shielding the flame with his cupped hand , he carried it back to the village . |
| 12 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |