Example sentences of "have been carrying a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 7 | According to Israeli reports the " infiltrator " had been carrying a " leaflet attesting to his membership of [ the Islamic fundamentalist ] Hamas " . |
| 8 | Mr Nagdi had been carrying a gun when he left for work yesterday but he did not get a chance to use it . |
| 9 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 10 | ‘ Because she 's still fixated with her idea that Old Red 's been carrying a torch for your aunt for years , and it 's now burst into a fine new flame . |
| 11 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |