Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " 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 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 3 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The accident on the westbound carriageway was witnessed by members of the Faslane protest camp who had been demonstrating against the convoy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was a little husband who 'd been sleeping under the covers . ’ |
| 15 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 26 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 27 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 28 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 29 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 30 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |