Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 2 | They did n't fire a response in her , but it felt nice , like when they had been holding hands . |
| 3 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 4 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 5 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 6 | ‘ Party , party , ’ she yelled out to break the spell and Hosanna ran from where he had been sitting watching her . |
| 7 | He made his way easily to the door and was about to close it when he caught sight of something tucked into the corner of the car between two wooden containers , out of sight from where he had been sitting earlier . |
| 8 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
| 9 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 10 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 11 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 12 | Some time later , she made her way back to where he had been sitting . |
| 13 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 14 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 15 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 16 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 17 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |