Example sentences of "who had been [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 2 | She knew the rebel baron who had been ravaging the countryside , the man whose name Ralf had been unable to recall . |
| 3 | She was on the point of abandoning the plan when a neighbour , a solicitor who had been advising the magazine , explained that Neville and company were respectable young men really , from decent backgrounds — after all , his father had been a colonel in the Australian Army . |
| 4 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 5 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 6 | When they returned , the Burtons , who had been sharing the Simmons — Granger household , moved out to a minute bungalow which they rented from the James Masons . |
| 7 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 8 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 9 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 10 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 11 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 12 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 13 | When the film is complete and the company has pulled out , he stays behind and watches with awe as the local Peruvian Indians — who had been watching the film being made — begin to re-enact it . |
| 14 | Whitlock , who had been watching the entrance from the comfort of an armchair for the past ten minutes , got to his feet and shook her extended hand . |
| 15 | ‘ I du n no , ’ said Masklin , who had been watching the geese speculatively . |
| 16 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Crowe , who had been watching the carnage unfold from the other end with increasing horror , unfurled some strokes of class in an attempt to ease the situation . |
| 18 | Cecil , who had been considering the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot , believes the prevailing soft ground will negate the speed of the specialist milers . |
| 19 | Tawell 's second piece of bad luck was when the tenacious Dr Champney , who had been searching the countryside for the dark-robed perpetrator of the crime , noticed him boarding the train . |
| 20 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 21 | My Chief-of-Staff , who had been following the progress of the attack from a more distant position in Consenvoye Wood on the eastern bank , telephoned to me that the attack had failed and that everywhere our men could be seen falling back . |
| 22 | After the charter was read for the last time , the children , who had been joining the procession as it moved through the village , scrambled for new pennies thrown by the lord and lady of the manor . |
| 23 | Dr Cullen of Poplar , who had been leading the disaffiliation campaign in London , moved to instruct the NAC : to take immediate steps to discontinue the affiliation of the ILP to the Labour Party . |
| 24 | I think it must have been left by workmen who had been preparing the crypt for the disposal of some saintly relic or the body of a recently deceased priest . |
| 25 | The Home Secretary , Sir Samuel Hoare , noted that any influx of refugees from the continent might bring together the political extremes — the fascists who had been attacking the Jews for three years and the communists and other left-wing elements who might argue that Jewish refugees were taking away Gentile employment . |
| 26 | He rubbed the back of his hand across his eyes , then stood up impatiently as two of the Moi who had been scouting the region while they rested rushed into the clearing and began chatting excitedly to Devraux , pointing back the way they had come . |
| 27 | She heard a noise , but , before she could take any evasive action , a cycle came spinning round the corner and the sharp eyes of the girl who had been cleaning the farm were on her intently . |
| 28 | The Johannesburg Sunday Times had meanwhile disclosed on Feb. 10 that one of the co-accused who had been missing the day the trial opened , Katiza Cebekhulu , had actually been seen , and duly photographed by the newspaper , among the crowd on the Supreme Court steps , apparently unconcerned by the heavy police presence . |
| 29 | The ruling Barisan government had accused Harrison and his PBDS Party colleagues of colluding with the ‘ interfering Westerners , ’ and the episode had damaged the credibility of local activists , including Harrison himself , who had been tackling the logging issue in their own way for many years . |
| 30 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |