Sentence examples for had been ferrying from inspiring English sources

They justified their actions by saying the drivers had been ferrying military provisions.

The rebels said Abu Khaled had been one of their steady suppliers, and had been ferrying in weapons from Iraq since the uprising began last year.

It had been ferrying soldiers to Khankala from the main Russian staging base at Mozdok, in the republic of North Ossetia.

The United Nations said it would be forced to ground helicopters that had been ferrying aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors unless donors quickly provided more financing.

At the time of the accident, the Lamma IV had been ferrying people to visit Hong Kong Electric's power plant on Lamma Island and also to watch the fireworks for China's National Day.

Onshore, she sought out Hilda Lezama, a stout middle-aged woman who, for many years, had been ferrying Miskitu divers down the Río Patuca to the sea, returning upriver to Ahuas with passengers.

Witnesses said at least 31 dead had been ferried to morgues across the city.

Colleagues with riot shields had been ferried into the base on standby before first light but there was not a single incident.

Many of the refugees had been ferried by volunteers to the nearest transit camp and others had started the long uphill journey on foot to reach buses to take them to the island's registration centres.

She said the bait stations were designed to be accessible only to rats, and a stock of the antidote had been ferried across in case a cat or dog got to the poison.

Each chair, Norby told me, had been ferried downriver precariously balanced on a dugout, then paddled upstream on canoes lashed together and finally pulled up the hill on rollers by four or five men.