Example sentences of "[noun pl] where [pers pn] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun . |
| 2 | Jean-Paul 's body was pale , flushed red on face , neck and arms where he had been burned by the sun . |
| 3 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 4 | Kevin Brown , Patrick Seymour and Lou Collins ran into the listening-post from the cots where they had been lying dozing . |
| 5 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 6 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 7 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |