Example sentences of "[be] [be] carry [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way .
2 Hayboxes were being carried into the principal rooms by the Mess staff , direct from the cooks back in the château .
3 A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction .
4 She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water .
5 Two armed men had jumped from a car as the money was being carried towards the bank .
6 Twenty paces or so beyond the shed the road twisted out of sight , and it was from that direction the smell of burning was being carried by the breeze .
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