I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a convoy carries sth
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The military convoy was carrying supplies to a NATO base at Malatya.
a crime carries a penalty
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Murder carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison.
a crime carries a sentence (= that is the punishment for that crime )
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Rape should carry an automatic life sentence.
a current carries sb/sth (= makes them move along in the water )
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Their boat was moving fast, carried by the current.
a plane carries passengers
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A plane carrying 10 civilians was shot down.
as fast as...legs could carry (= running as quickly as he could )
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Johnny ran off as fast as his legs could carry him .
bear/carry a grudge
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Wallace said the rumors had been started by someone who bore a grudge against him.
bear/carry a watermark
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The sheet bears the watermark ‘1836’.
bear/carry/shoulder the burden (= be responsible for something )
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At the age of 16, Suzy bore the burden of providing for her family.
carries...stigma
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In the US, smoking carries a stigma .
carries...the death sentence (= is punished by )
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Premeditated murder carries the death sentence .
carry a card (= have one with you )
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Motorists could soon be forced to carry an ID card.
carry a gene (= have a gene that causes a medical condition which you can pass on to your children )
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Some women carry a gene which makes them more likely to develop breast cancer.
carry a knife (= have it with you )
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The campaign warns young people about the dangers of carrying knives.
carry a punishment (= used when saying what the punishment for something is )
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The offence carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
carry a risk (= might be dangerous )
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Most medical operations carry some risk.
carry a signal (= allow it to travel along or through something )
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Copper wires carry the electrical signals.
carry a virus (= have a virus, which you may then give to other people )
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A nurse at the clinic was found to be carrying the virus.
carry a weapon
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The man is believed to be carrying a weapon.
carry meaning ( also bear a meaning formal ) (= have a meaning )
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In conversation, even a pause may carry meaning.
carry on a conversation
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It’s impossible to carry on a conversation with all this noise in the background.
carry on/go on regardless British English (= continue what you are doing )
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You get a lot of criticism, but you just have to carry on regardless.
carry out a command (= obey one )
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The men carried out the command immediately.
carry out a crime
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The boy admitted that he’d carried out the crime.
carry out a plan (= do what has been planned )
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The bombers were arrested by the security forces before they could carry out their plans.
carry out a programme ( also implement a programme formal )
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They attempted to implement a programme of reform.
carry out a raid (= make a raid )
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They were encouraged by the French king to carry out raids upon English ships.
carry out a repair
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The school was closed for two months while repairs were carried out.
carry out a review ( also conduct a review formal )
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No one has yet carried out a review of the system.
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Government officials are conducting a review of the law.
carry out a search ( also conduct a search formal )
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Police have carried out a search of his home.
carry out a threat (= do what you threatened to do )
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She ought to have carried out her threat to go to the police.
carry out an attack
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The man who carried out the attack has been described as white and 25 to 32 years old.
carry out an engagement
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Last year, the princess carried out over 300 official engagements.
carry out an examination ( also conduct an examination formal ) (= examine sth )
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The police are carrying out an examination of the crime scene.
carry out an execution
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The order to carry out his execution was sent to the prison.
carry out an explosion (= cause one deliberately )
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By 1942, the United States had carried out test explosions with nuclear bombs.
carry out an inspection
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Engineers had carried out an inspection on the plane.
carry out work
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The work should be carried out without further delay.
carry out your duties ( also perform/discharge your duties formal ) (= do your job )
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She has always carried out her duties efficiently.
carry out/commit an assault
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She admitted to committing the assault.
carry out/conduct a check formal (= do or run a check )
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The police carried out a check on the car’s registration number.
carry out/do a survey
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The survey was carried out by Warwick University.
carry out...evaluation
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We need to carry out a proper evaluation of the new system.
carry out/perform/do a task
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I don't think we have enough resources to carry out this task.
carry out/take/do a poll
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A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States.
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A poll taken last month gave the Democrats a seven-point lead.
carry passengers
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The aeroplane was carrying over 500 passengers.
carry the melody (= play or sing the melody, while other voices or instruments play other notes )
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The soprano voice carries the melody.
carry/bear scars (= to suffer from feelings of fear or sadness )
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These children will carry their emotional scars with them for the rest of their lives.
carry...clout
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An official protest could carry considerable clout .
carrying out essential maintenance work
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Engineers are carrying out essential maintenance work on the main line to Cambridge.
carry/raise/wave etc the banner of sth (= publicly support a particular belief etc )
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She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.
cash and carry
come with/carry a guarantee
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The building work comes with a 30-year guarantee.
do a study/carry out a study ( also conduct a study formal )
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The scientists are carrying out a study into the effects of global warming.
do/carry out a test ( also perform/conduct a test formal )
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Your doctor will need to carry out some tests.
do/carry out an assessment
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A teacher does a yearly assessment of each child’s progress.
do/carry out an experiment
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They carried out a series of experiments to test the theory.
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He did some experiments with bats.
do/carry out an operation ( also perform an operation formal )
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The operation was carried out by a team of surgeons at Papworth Hospital.
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I’ve done this operation hundreds of times.
do/carry out research ( also conduct research formal )
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The research was carried out by a team of scientists at Edinburgh University.
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Little research has been conducted into the subject.
do/carry out surgery ( also perform surgery formal )
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A San Antonio doctor has volunteered to perform the surgery at no cost.
do/carry out/conduct a post-mortem
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
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No similar analysis has been done in this country.
follow orders/carry out orders (= obey them )
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The men argued that they had only been following orders.
have/carry a headline
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The Times carried the headline ‘7.4 Earthquake hits Los Angeles.’
have/hold/carry a gun
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I could see he was carrying a gun.
maintain/carry on/continue/uphold a tradition (= make a tradition continue in the same way or at the same standard as before )
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We maintain a tradition of cider making dating from Norman times.
make/carry out reforms
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They haven't made any real reforms.
make/do/carry out etc spot checks
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We carry out spot checks on the vehicles before they leave the depot.
pass/carry/approve a motion (= accept it by voting )
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The motion was carried unanimously.
perform/carry out a chore formal (= do a chore )
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It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.
publish/carry/run an article (= print it in a newspaper or magazine )
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The magazine carried an article on the dangers of being overweight.
run/carry an advertisement (= print or broadcast an advertisement )
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Broadcasters are no longer allowed to run cigarette advertisements.
sound carries (= can be heard some distance away )
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I knew the sound of the horn would would carry for miles.
take/carry sth to extremes
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Problems only occur when this attitude is taken to extremes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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Hand carts and horsedrawn carts wait to carry away building supplies brought from the gravel pits of Middlesex.
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I really got into the role-playing... maybe carried away a bit.
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Patients were dying by the hundreds, but there was nobody to carry away the corpses.
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Before you get carried away , stop and consider locomotion.
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Everybody in the district came out to watch the coffin being carried away .
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At last, to earn full thanks and to leave nothing undone, it carries away the refuse and leaves all clean.
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But there was no way she would allow herself to be carried away by that hypnotic pull that he had over her.
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That bus carried away in it a distorted mirror-image of my own experience.
forward
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Unrelieved losses may also be carried forward and, subject to certain restrictions, set against future profits.
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Net losses from prior years may be carried forward . 5.
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Defence is now allowed to carry forward a percentage of its vote into the next financial year.
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A few could have been carried forward by accident.
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This work is carried forward in the present project.
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The girl was put under intense pressure from prosecutors to carry forward her accusation.
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Furthermore, they were in debt 5/5 though that was carried forward to their next account.
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At the Royal Society launch therefore we convened an impressive group of people who might initiate and carry forward the discussion.
off
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As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
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Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris.
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Something has been stealing the farmers' chickens and carrying off the young sheep from the hills.
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That they will never capture or carry off from the settlements white women or children.
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Several of the dead sheep were carried off to the state capital of Villahermosa 30 miles away for examination.
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Only an occasional boy or girl was able to show off carrying a whole textbook.
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Another column dashed up her starboard side and carried off her smokestack.
on
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However, there is a sense in which the particles that make up your body will carry on into another universe.
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Constantly on the move in pursuit of the migratory herds, they carried on their backs their few meager possessions.
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He carries on with his illogical druggy spew, obviously telling a tragic story by the look on his face.
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He no longer carried on the ruse of going up to the swimming pool every day.
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Then turn over and cook the other side. Carry on until you have used up all the batter.
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The places I've been and people I've met have given me the confidence to carry on .
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During this period of numbness, people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living.
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But you won't be infectious and most people are able to carry on just as normal.
out
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The checks that were carried out were not particularly rigorous and did not in fact tend to reveal abuse.
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It is the beginning of a campaign of total relentless surveillance carried out at the direction of the Attorney General.
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De Castelnau was committed; and so too was the man appointed to carry out de Castelnau's decision.
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When ideology is backed up with money and resources, you spend it to carry out that ideology.
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He looked definitely iffy to me, but not the sort of bad lad who carries out hits.
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I felt a right idiot, being carried out on a stretcher, everybody gawping at me.
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Psychometric tests were carried out over six months.
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An important feature of this research is that it is carried out in a politically charged atmosphere.
through
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They carried through with the original orders.
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Our own little putsch was carried through without loss of life, you remember.
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Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through reasonably smoothly.
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These latter two actions increase the probability that a client will carry through with the contract.
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The theme of the convention was carried through by every speaker and in every session.
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These adjustments carry through to the resource market as expanding industries demand more resources and contracting industries demand fewer.
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But that early promise isn't carried through , as flooring the pedal produces little extra urge.
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Boycotts of black stars were suggested, though rarely carried through .
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burden
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They have both carried the burden of bearing the brunt for Britain in international competition for the last decade and more.
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The policy sciences carry the burden of providing useful knowledge.
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This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof.
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I carried that burden myself, thinking it was my own fault because of what I heard at church.
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Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent.
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Under our current code, employers officially carry half the burden , which they can deduct at 50 %.
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I would have carried my burden more lightly, not been overcome by a spirit of seriousness and of shame.
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He carries the burden of being a first-round draft choice on a team that needs a center in the worst way.
business
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You are carrying on a business if you sell or barter any of the livestock or their produce.
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Civil servants are employed to assist ministers to carry on the business of government.
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He was hostile to the joint-stock company as a medium through which to carry on business enterprise.
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Banks carrying on offshore banking business in Labuan are not subject to exchange controls.
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Fernando Serra could make all the threats he liked but he couldn't stop her carrying on her business .
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Likewise if the defendant carries on business here and the transaction related to that business.
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The defendant in proceedings before the Dover Justices carried on a restaurant business .
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They are content to maintain their secrecy and carry on business as normal.
check
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Others carry a supplement - check pages for full details.
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The company said it was continuing to carry out checks at the well.
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The law puts the onus on the lender to carry out necessary checks .
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The new job carries a regular weekly check of about $ 240.
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He decided to carry out a computer check on Model.
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Use the spaces below to remind you when checks need to be carried out.
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He went round carrying out the usual checks , asking the usual questions.
duty
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The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities.
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Even when Congress wants to carry out its duties , there are obstacles.
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The Hercules carried out vital wartime duties in the Falklands and the Gulf.
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The man he left in charge did not carry out the duties expected of him.
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When headmen were put in the position of choosing between protecting relations and carrying out their duties they chose the former.
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Failure to exercise one's rights may be morally neutral; failure to carry out one's duties is not.
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Hence local government employs teachers, social workers, housing managers, architects, engineers and so on to carry out their professional duties .
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I have rarely met two Ministers who take more trouble to carry out the duties of their ministerial office.
experiment
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We could, I suppose, have carried out such an experiment without the drastic consequences the Lieutenant has suggested.
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These include the deployment and retrieval of a NASA-owned spacecraft called Spartan, which carries a half-dozen experiments .
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The data will be analysed and a decision made as to whether to carry out a similar experiment during the busy summer months.
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With his men properly nourished, Cook had all hands available to carry out scientific experiments and explorations.
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Leading voice: Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting.
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The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments .
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One approach is to carry out experiments with a digitizing table in order to determine empirically an appropriate distribution for digitizing errors.
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There is a chance to carry out your own experiments , a steam railway, and a special laboratory for young people.
gun
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He was not carrying a gun .
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In Internet chat rooms, backpackers debate carrying guns and pepper spray.
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If I'd been carrying my gun I'd have pulled it.
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Look, I carry a gun .
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His mouth dropped open when he saw me standing in front of him, carrying a gun .
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But he did carry a loaded gun , finally, just for Jack.
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But Edward, delighted to be carrying a gun at last, hardly cared.
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A jeep carrying two soldiers holding guns followed us for several miles, then turned back.
passenger
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Private hire cars also carry roof signs showing their telephone numbers, but are only allowed to carry passengers in response to telephone requests.
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Those aircraft carry 260 to 400 passengers .
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Quite apart from anything else, the competition is far too fierce for a company like McKenzie Dunton to carry any passengers .
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No airline could afford to carry passengers for long at such giveaway prices.
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The Le Shuttle trains carried 163, 305 passenger vehicles, including 6, 306 buses, during the month.
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The Sun Princess carries 1, 950 passengers , far fewer than ships far smaller.
penalty
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Creating a false market in shares carries a penalty of seven years imprisonment under Section 47 of the Financial Services Act.
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Murder carries a minimum penalty of 15 years to life in prison, while the top penalty for manslaughter is 11 years.
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All are defined as crimes against humanity and carry a penalty of life imprisonment.
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So heinous, in fact, that it carries a penalty of three months in the slammer.
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The offence should be regarded as rape and carry the equivalent penalty and anonymity.
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These are serious offences, carrying the same maximum penalty as the full offences.
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The guerrillas are continuing to recruit minors, and they carry out the death penalty .
research
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Fourth-year students carry out an original research project under staff supervision.
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There are, too, a number of experimental ways of carrying out research into magazine ads.
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To help tackle the problem, the park authority is carrying out a research study.
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In the interim, they agreed to carry out further research into land-based disposal.
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This was considered generally impractical and in view of the particular difficulties of carrying out social research in Belfast, probably unattainable.
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He says that they need to carry out research into the effects of the pills.
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As well as assignments commissioned by organisations, the Centre carries out research sponsored by national and international agencies.
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She urged health authorities to carry out urgent research into the problem.
responsibility
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In addition, unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities .
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Television licenses do have great value and they should carry responsibilities .
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Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services.
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But your right to a proper education for your children carries a double responsibility .
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Working in prisons, with the need for round-the-clock supervision poses particular problems for women who also carry traditional domestic responsibilities .
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Some religious have moved into smaller communities whilst carrying the responsibility for caring for their own elderly and sick brothers and sisters.
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This would carry with it a responsibility on their part to help devise the tests, or at least to scrutinize their content.
review
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The Bureau carries out regular reviews of each contributing office's mortality and sickness experience against the general experience for all offices.
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This brings us to our final issue: who should carry out curriculum review ?
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No one had carried out any overall review of the system since then.
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It is not therefore appropriate for a partner who has had any detailed involvement with the engagement to carry out the review .
risk
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This general approach to drafting carries the risk that the rule will be difficult to interpret.
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The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
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Most government agencies provide up to 90 percent cover, with the exporter carrying the balance of risk himself.
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Every choice carries risks , every option has trade-offs.
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Parent company guarantees Joining an overseas subsidiary, for example, carries potential risks .
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Williams cautioned that vigorous exercise can carry risks .
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But this kind of assertive coup de main carries a huge risk .
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That, they knew, carried with it great risks early in the war.
search
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After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents.
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Go to your library and carry out a literature search on that particular system.
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One of the students had tried to carry out a literature search during the summer, before coming on the course.
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It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches .
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They were supposed to be carrying out an arms search .
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So you knew how to carry out a literature search before you came on this course?
sentence
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More specifically, we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used.
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So now we must carry out the sentence .
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All you're doing is carrying out a sentence that the courts no longer have the power to impose.
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The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $ 250, 000 fine.
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Conviction for such an offence carries a five-year prison sentence .
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Currently, those sales carry a misdemeanor sentence of a year or less in the county jail.
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Drink-driving, for example, should carry an automatic prison sentence .
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Those arrested Wednesday face criminal charges of forgery and falsifying business records, both of which carry possible jail sentences .
study
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Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available.
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It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth's surface.
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Interestingly neither of these two people were sociologists, though sociologists have carried out participant studies amongst homosexuals and criminal gangs.
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Two studies will be carried out.
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The most detailed type of sorting consists of carrying out a die study .
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Scientists at the laboratory will carry out a study to gain a clearer picture of the dummy's effectiveness.
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Referring clinicians gave permission for this to be carried out and the study was approved by the local Hospital Ethical Committee.
survey
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Had they already reached Saturn, carried out their survey , and gone into hibernation?
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We will carry out a free survey of your electrical installations and visually check the condition of your wiring.
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Nether Wyresdale Parish Council would like to express their appreciation of the effort that went into carrying out the survey .
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Which Online carried out the survey .
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Rowntree carried out his third survey of living standards in York in 1951.
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Inspection and servicing of each of the platforms was to be carried out in the survey ship's main docking bay.
task
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But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by some one else.
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A calendar of events is a time schedule for carrying out the required tasks of the research project.
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Brains may carry out tasks in the same way even if the tissues involved are not strictly homologous.
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I do not suggest that the courts should have attempted to interfere with the Army in carrying out its task .
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These usually involve pupils wearing historical costume and carrying out tasks of a historical nature appropriate to the site.
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For one thing, it has never been shown that the carrying out of group tasks requires a vocal language.
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Unix now provides the user with access based upon the least privileges he or she requires to carry out their tasks .
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But since neural computers can carry out highly skilled tasks tirelessly, they will inevitably replace humans in some medical tasks.
test
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Three final assumptions permit Lucas to carry out his test .
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Neither side can agree on doctors or medical institutes to carry out tests .
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I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home.
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Endeavour also will carry a Satellite Test Unit to try out a new laser-based attitude system for positioning spacecraft.
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The car park was immediately closed upon advice from Darlington council, which carried out the tests in line with national safety standards.
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Our intention is to carry out a field test with gel in 1994-95, with Gyda being one of the candidates.
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Perhaps the constable who carried out the test was merely having a run of bad luck.
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So we carried out a test very satisfactorily and then made overtures to land.
threat
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There was no way to prevent White from carrying out his threat of f6.
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If Walden carries out his threat , the Tory government would fall, leading to a general election.
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There was nothing to stop the guy carrying out his threat to put the husband wise about Laura's past.
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Charles wondered if Alex Household had carried out his threat of feeding the wrong lines.
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Accordingly, on Oct. 22, Bush carried out his threat to veto the bill.
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Whether companies would carry out their threat to emigrate is debatable, with the huge costs that it would entail.
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Maybe she ought to have carried out her threat to go to the police.
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The question of whether the workers wish to co-operate becomes secondary as unwillingness carries with it the threat of losing their jobs.
weapon
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Some moles and shrews carry chemical weapons .
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They carried many weapons , but the minigun was the most feared.
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They weren't carrying weapons , so Agnes assumed they were politicians.
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They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons .
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In the case of characters, the models must actually carry the weapons ascribed to them.
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It always struck me that they had enough people to carry all the weapons .
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Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
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Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons .
weight
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But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal.
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We carry the weight of the race and the weight of racism.
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Whether he was more than that, whether he carried weight with the monarch or the Council, was up to him.
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Indeed, in planning a food garden for next season, the cookbook may carry more weight .
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The men who were most prone to carry extra weight on their bellies were also at higher cataract risk.
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It was no less than he deserved for carrying the weight of his team on his shoulders all game long.
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Cigar can no longer be accused of never carrying weight .
work
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Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work .
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For Bedford to carry on in his work it was necessary that he believe trade would transform the world.
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A third have also carried out environmental improvement work , mainly teacher instigated.
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After the report advisers are expected to carry out follow-up work and proposals for improvement acted on.
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The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
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Which profession carries out particular work may differ from country to country.
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A failure to carry out necessary work would give rise to liability.
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Living in camps, they carried out conservation work , planting new forests and helping with flood control projects.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carry a torch for sb
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Aaron Hammon is a recovering speed freak; he has carried a torch for the drug methamphetamine since childhood.
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Was it possible poor old Harry was still carrying a torch for Pickles?
carry/take coals to Newcastle
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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5000 people carrying banners and signs marched to the Capitol building.
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A porter helped me carry my bags.
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Air India carried 1.66 million passengers last year.
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Any good hardware store will carry bolts like that.
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Bigger discount stores carry name-brand merchandise at low prices.
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Deeper sounds carry further than high-pitched ones.
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Doctors can perform tests to see if a woman carries the breast cancer gene.
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Front tyres tend to go down more quickly than back ones, because they carry more weight.
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How many teenagers carry guns or knives to school these days?
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I've been carrying this tape-recorder around with me all day.
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I don't usually carry that much cash on me.
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Interstate 5 is carrying 50% more traffic than it did five years ago.
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Laura carries an unmistakable air of authority.
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Mike carries 300 pounds on his 6-foot, 4-inch body.
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Murder carries a life sentence in this state.
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Nine and three make twelve, put down the two and carry the one.
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Rats are known to carry diseases like the plague.
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Reagan carried California in 1980.
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Rivers carry debris out to the sea, and it then settles on the bottom.
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Stephanie's arguments carried the meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Generally you have two choices: where your debtor lives or carries on his business, or where the debt was incurred.
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I hope she can carry on for a while longer.
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It sums up how it carries large loads.
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McDougall carried on for another three years, when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards.
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Nitrite affects the fish by binding with the blood and preventing it carrying as much oxygen as normal.
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Three days later Love arrived in Stockton carrying the head of one man and the hand of another.
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What you must do is carry out as much investigation as is reasonably possible to narrow it down to one suspect.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carry/take coals to Newcastle
fetch and carry
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She has a positive knack of getting one to fetch and carry.
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Some one had to go round with the coals, wash up, sweep, scrub, polish, fetch and carry.
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The two girls' job was to clear the table between courses, fetch and carry dishes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Senior Donald Stickland added scoring runs of 75 and 69 yards and finished with 211 yards on just nine carries.