Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 4 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A woman accomplice , who had been hiding in one of the cubicles , came out and the two ran off , leaving the victim sprawled on the floor , said Acting Insp Smart . |
| 10 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 11 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 12 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 13 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 14 | They were identified as those of Ruth Fuerst , an Austrian nurse , who had been missing since 1943 ; Muriel Eady , who had been one of Christie 's colleagues at work in 1944 ; Christie 's wife ; and three prostitutes . |
| 15 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 16 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 17 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |
| 18 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |