Example sentences of "[vb past] to be carrying " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he pretended to be carrying court documents . |
| 2 | In addition , there are 15,000 people known to be HIV-positive and twice as many believed to be carrying the virus without requesting medical help . |
| 3 | Then it was rumoured that Haj Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti , was travelling from his postwar sanctuary in Lebanon to Acre and there was an ambush at Insherah on the bus believed to be carrying him . |
| 4 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 5 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 6 | The imperialist politicians who , at the turn of the century , seemed to be carrying all before them , turned out to be far less powerful than Hobson and others had feared . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century these forms of ‘ live ’ variety seemed to be carrying all before them and they had become almost the symbolic or quintessential entertainment of the new city . |
| 8 | His schedule had worked , but only because he seemed to be carrying out most of it himself . |
| 9 | One of the lads seemed to be carrying a bag . |
| 10 | The wine waiter happened to be carrying a very rare bottle indeed . |
| 11 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 12 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 13 | The brief glimpse the signalman gained of the stranger was not sufficient to give a good description except that he was male and he appeared to be carrying a bag . |
| 14 | As we shall see , much of the early response from sociology wanted to off-load the epistemological ‘ freight ’ that the sociology of knowledge appeared to be carrying . |
| 15 | Behind him I could see my mum , Emily and Mrs Quigley , who appeared to be carrying a large sheaf of corn . |
| 16 | It appeared to be carrying something . |