Example sentences of "be [adv] carrying [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | - You think you 're buying three pounds of onions in the shops , get home and find you 're actually carrying a bag of the new season 's hyacinth bulbs . |
| 2 | Edward Clarke , managing director of Swift Lift , says the evenness of the pile is particularly important when handling crops which are still carrying a high soil content . |
| 3 | Banks are also carrying a number of weak companies , hoping that all will come right in the end . |
| 4 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 5 | If this is the case , then an infested ant may appear to its colleagues to be simply carrying an ant larva , something it would regularly do as part of its nursing duties ( Journal of Zoology vol. 225 , pp 59–70 ) . |
| 6 | I believe he is already carrying the geranium . |
| 7 | The boy goes by at about the same time each day , and he is always carrying a bag . |
| 8 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 9 | He is also carrying an armful of her books and papers , and fielding an orange which rolls free from the overloaded briefcase she is cradling to herself . |
| 10 | When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane , at least one of his followers is actually carrying a sword and uses it to lop off the ear of an attendant of the High Priest ; in the Fourth Gospel , the man with the sword is specifically identified as Simon Peter . |
| 11 | ‘ He was always carrying a casket , a battered , tattered thing which he guarded with his life . ’ |
| 12 | Was it possible poor old Harry was still carrying a torch for Pickles ? |
| 13 | She was used as a model until far into the nineteenth century and was still carrying an admiral 's flag in 1848 . |
| 14 | Armed flying squad officers ambushed Mr Coveley , who was still carrying the wrapped cucumber , at his home in Bethnal Green , east London , on 4 July . |
| 15 | I was still carrying the child , but now I could see you riding away into the distance . |
| 16 | Lucy looked down and realised that she was still carrying the switchblade . |
| 17 | He was also carrying an orange poster on a pole , urging a vote for the local Liberal Democrat candidate . |
| 18 | She was incongruously carrying a tray with an elegant silver teapot , a kettle , a bowl of sugar , a saucer with sliced lemon . |
| 19 | Naturally , the best bit from my point of view was actually carrying the birds and working with them . |