Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 2 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |
| 3 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 4 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 5 | Amid continuing reports of gunfights and general insecurity in the capital , UN troops were reported on Nov. 10 to have secured Mogadishu airport and main runway , by agreement with the clan which had been controlling it . |
| 6 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 7 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 8 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 9 | Obispal 's gaze drifted towards Meh'Lindi , and he frowned as if adding the final piece to a puzzle which had been perplexing him , but not liking the pattern that he saw . |
| 10 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 11 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 12 | When Dennis emerged I reclaimed my room , flopped out on the sheets impregnated with his distinctive odour and slept fitfully until just after ten , when a hot slice of sunlight which had been working its way across the bed reached my face . |
| 13 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 14 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 15 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 16 | Harriet Jarman sat erect as if the noise had helped her solve whatever had been troubling her . |