Example sentences of "who had [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 2 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 3 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hugh , who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee , waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace . |
| 6 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 7 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 8 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 9 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 10 | Oisin had drawn breath to respond to this , when Eogan , who had been looking towards the forest , suddenly said , ‘ What 's that ? ’ |
| 11 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 12 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 13 | The foundation of a national Board of Education signalled the acceptance within the official culture of a need for policies that would co-ordinate an efficient and fully national system of education , and also allowed the voices of dons who had been calling for a transformation of the traditional curriculum to carry more weight than ever before . |
| 14 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 15 | He had discussed this with a certain Colonel Hazelden who had been operating as an agent in the Tobruk area . |
| 16 | Wilcox , who had been frowning after the departing figure of Everthorpe , turned and almost smiled . |
| 17 | Beamish , who had been watching like a man in a daze , pulled a handful of hay from a bale and held it out to her . |
| 18 | Then her mother , who had been watching from the kitchen window , ran to the back door . |
| 19 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 20 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 21 | The scowl of irritation on his face was more marked than usual , and the moment he replaced the cup on its saucer the congaie , who had been hovering behind the screen door , hurried out to remove his breakfast tray . |
| 22 | Franca , who had been leaning against the big warm cast-iron stove with a spoon in her hand , threw down the spoon with a clang and marched through the door into her sitting room . |
| 23 | 10–11 Donald Urquhart who had been teaching at the Lotts school left to become a student at Edinburgh University and was succeeded by Malcolm McPhail . |
| 24 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 26 | On arrival , the leading group met up with Bob Melot who had been hiding in the area for several weeks gathering intelligence . |
| 27 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 28 | Mark Francis , who had been acting as the museum 's director , retains responsibility for the administration of the collection which comprises some 1,000 original paintings and drawings , including an important group of early works being given by the DIA Center for the Arts , one hundred sculptures , a complete collection of prints of Warhol 's films , and an extensive archive of source material , audio and video tapes , correspondence and other papers . |
| 29 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 30 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |