Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 6 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 7 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 8 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 9 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 10 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 11 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 12 | At the end of our corridor is the playroom where the children not yet in school spend their days with playworkers — unemployed women who 'd been signing on the dole before getting these " work experience scheme " jobs funded by the Manpower Services Commission . |