Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land .
2 I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching .
3 When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something .
4 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 .
5 It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts .
6 I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years .
7 Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is .
8 As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing !
9 We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) .
10 The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days .
11 My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle .
12 It was the prose at which I had been working all morning .
13 Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy .
14 I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it
15 And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . "
16 Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material .
17 ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading .
18 On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting .
19 In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting .
20 She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm .
21 ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks .
22 Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months .
23 Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car .
24 It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps .
25 She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him .
26 Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove .
27 She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face .
28 It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer .
29 If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long .
30 Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair .
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