Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 2 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 3 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
| 4 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 5 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 6 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 7 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 8 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 9 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 10 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 11 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 12 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 13 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 14 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 15 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 16 | It was to be his last substantial prose work , the final fruit of the project which he had been contemplating since the middle of the Second World War . |
| 17 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |
| 18 | On his desk was a map of the Fairfax property which he had been working on when he had the telephone call from the owner telling him that he was cancelling all the arrangements . |
| 19 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 20 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 21 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 22 | The Doctor returned to the main chamber , and picked up a bottle which he had been examining when Dubois called . |
| 23 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 24 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 25 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 26 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |