Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [be] [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 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 10 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The accident on the westbound carriageway was witnessed by members of the Faslane protest camp who had been demonstrating against the convoy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wirral-born Ron Minshull , who emigrated to Canada over 30 years ago , is appearing with the Merseysippi Jazz Band who have been performing in Sacramento . |
| 18 | It was a little husband who 'd been sleeping under the covers . ’ |
| 19 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 24 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 28 | Police say they are increasingly concerned for the safety of a Cowley teenager who 's been missing from home for nearly two months Wasem Salim Katana who 's fifteen , was last seen in a taxi on the twelfth of September . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |