Example sentences of "[noun] who had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Bobby who had been sitting by me . |
| 2 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 3 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 4 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 5 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 8 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 9 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 10 | Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face . |
| 11 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |
| 12 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 13 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 14 | The accident on the westbound carriageway was witnessed by members of the Faslane protest camp who had been demonstrating against the convoy . |
| 15 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 16 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 17 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 18 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 19 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 24 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 25 | A counsellor at the Russian embassy in Paris , Viktor Oshchenko , an acknowledged member of Russia 's foreign intelligence service who had been missing from his posting since July 27 , appeared in London on Aug. 13 together with his wife and daughter . |
| 26 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 27 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 28 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |