Example sentences of "who had been [v-ing] on [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 4 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 5 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 6 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |
| 7 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 8 | Tam , who had been sleeping on the bed , woke suddenly , scratched himself , jumped down and marched to the door , where he stood , whining imperiously . |
| 9 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 10 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 11 | Dad , who had been sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands , went into action . |
| 12 | Benjamin , who had been sitting on the edge of his trestle bed , got up and opened the door . |