Example sentences of "have [been] carrying [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced . |
2 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
3 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
4 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
5 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |