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  • I'd return to find them sleeping in Julian's carry-cot, which would be plastered with cat hairs.

    John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

  • And thanks to Margaret and Sandy, I had found out which crib and carry-cot to buy, not to mention all the other baby paraphernalia.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

  • I place my little boy back in his carry-cot, and as we commence the unholy row once more, he falls immediately to sleep again.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • In the car are Frances, myself, little Joe asleep in his carry-cot, and the dog.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • So that afternoon I haul Joe and his carry-cot up the four flights of stairs and into the rehearsal room.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • And thanks to Margaret and Sandy, I had found out which crib and carry-cot to buy, not to mention all the other baby paraphernalia.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

  • We find a parking space, and with the baby in his carry-cot we make our way slowly across the treacherous ice and up the stairs in the darkness.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Many times during that fact-finding tour I felt as if I were travelling across Europe in a carry-cot with a suspect visa.

    between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

  • Suzannah, with the baby in its carry-cot beside her bed and the door open to the children's room, slept the sleep of someone who had done a hard day's work.

    The Chain Of Destiny Neels, Betty 1989

  • He, his wife and their child in a carry-cot would often visit Jocelyn Brooke, author of that sad satirical novel on the failure of a once supreme public school type, The Passing of a Hero, and have a meal cooked by him.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Dennis Barker 2010

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