Example sentences of "[noun] who have [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , many governments have extended legislation to other areas , for example , laws which permit police to use a breathalyser test to detect and detain drivers who have been drinking in excess of the alcohol limit . |
| 2 | A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry . |
| 3 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 4 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 5 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 6 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 7 | Wirral-born Ron Minshull , who emigrated to Canada over 30 years ago , is appearing with the Merseysippi Jazz Band who have been performing in Sacramento . |
| 8 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 9 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 10 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 11 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 12 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 13 | In Dering Street , Annely Juda makes a strong start to the new year with her first exhibition of new works by Hamish Fulton who has been walking in recent months in Norway , France and Spain ( 28 January-6 March ) . |
| 14 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 15 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 16 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 17 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 18 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 19 | Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 . |
| 20 | For house physician John Bery , the day begins at Cheltenham General Hospital when he puts on a pedometer.He 's one of a group of doctors who 've been helping in a survey of the distances covered while on duty.Soon Dr Bery is heading for a ward at the opposite end of the hospital.It 's the first of many long walks along the corridors during the day.The problem at Cheltenham general is identical to many other hospitals … where an old Victorian block has been extended with newer buildings forcing doctors to travel great distances from department to department . |
| 21 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 22 | Landowners are demanding that the police get tough with so-called new age travellers who 've been gathering in the region . |
| 23 | On arrival , the leading group met up with Bob Melot who had been hiding in the area for several weeks gathering intelligence . |
| 24 | Matthew Radford is an English painter who has been working in New York for the past ten years . |
| 25 | The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview . |
| 26 | In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together . |
| 27 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 28 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 29 | It was reported on Nov. 17. 1989 , that Sylvain Bamba , a former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice who had been living in exile since 1963 , had announced the formation of an opposition Union for Congolese Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie congolaise — UDC ) , with himself as its chairman . |
| 30 | She was born in Smyrna , a member of a British family who had been trading in Turkey for over 130 years . |