Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pron] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 2 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 3 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 4 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 5 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 6 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |