Example sentences of "being carry [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The results are quite accurate provided that care is taken to prevent small plant segments adhering to the belt and being carried past the sensor more than once . |
| 4 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 5 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
| 6 | He saw the hearse arrive and watched the two coffins being carried into the church . |
| 7 | The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science . |
| 8 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 9 | THE MAYOR OF RICHMOND BEING CARRIED ACROSS THE RIVER SWALE ( Page 88 ) |
| 10 | Two armed men had jumped from a car as the money was being carried towards the bank . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Shortage of iron makes people breathless , get tired very easily , the reason being that there is not enough oxygen being carried round the blood . |
| 13 | A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 16 | And this would vindicate those who believe that the market 's ills are not going to be solved by tinkering with new issue processes , but rather by a drastic cutback in the overheads — ie , sacking people — being carried by the industry . |
| 17 | The flag-draped coffin of Musician Richard ‘ Taff ’ Jones , 27 , one of the 10 Royal Marines bandsmen killed by IRA bombers at Deal , Kent , being carried from the barracks church , St Michael and All Angels , after a joint funeral service for him and Musician Bob Simmonds , 34 . |
| 18 | It is found in the intermuscular connective tissue of the thorax and back , the eggs being carried in the bloodstream to the lungs , where they hatch and are coughed up and swallowed . |
| 19 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 20 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 21 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 22 | the passengers are not being carried in the course of a business of carrying passengers |
| 23 | Penelope saw it being carried in the hand , stiff and furry at one end like a kind of African fly switch . |
| 24 | Elstob , 23 , admitted being carried in the car . |
| 25 | The outcome , however , was unchanged ; the compromise clause meeting the same fate as the amendment suspending the death penalty , being carried in the Commons , but again defeated in the Lords . |
| 26 | In the work of Cézanne , where the outlines of objects are stressed again and again , and then as often broken , the eye , while conscious of the limitations of normal vision , has the sensation of being carried around the object beyond its boundaries . |