Example sentences of "being carry [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A futile gesture , as he lifted her off the ground , and before she could react she was being carried unceremoniously to the house . |
| 2 | Local people also expressed concern over the health risks posed by the oil-dispersing sprays , which were being carried inland by the wind . |
| 3 | At first the lifeboat and casualty were being carried astern by the wind and tide , so power was increased in order to make headway . |
| 4 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 5 | In June and July there were the ‘ strawberry specials ’ , 30 tonnes of strawberries being carried daily by the Midland Railway from the Vale of Evesham to London . |
| 6 | ‘ The oddly shrewd-hearted torpor of being carried home in the dark , a tourist , in my father 's arms ’ enshrines the notion of love as essentially menacing and predatory . |