Example sentences of "[been] carrying a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In later life , Jaq understood that this particular Black Ship had been carrying a higher percentage of individualists hailing from less longstandingly pious worlds , than most such shipments .
2 It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture .
3 ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time .
4 He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief .
5 By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money .
6 Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries .
7 I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left .
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