Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pers pn] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 2 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 3 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 4 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 5 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 6 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 7 | Coopers ' determination was a brief letter referring to the sale agreement and what they had been asked to determine , and stating the answer : " We determine that the sales amount to £2,527,135 " . |
| 8 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |