Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was carry [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 2 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 3 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 4 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 5 | As I say , it does n't bother me constantly all the time , Doctor you know , it 's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road |