Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 2 | Dr Henry Sacheverell was a High Anglican cleric who had been delivering violent attacks on Dissenters , occasional conformists and Low Churchmen for several years . |
| 3 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 4 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 5 | Mrs Allen , who had been suffering emotional problems following the collapse of her marriage , was given the weapon after claiming she feared an attack from paramilitaries . |
| 6 | In Act Five , Father Dooley , who had been sipping Irish whisky from a camouflaged army-issue water-bottle , responded dramatically to the exchange between Hook and Wendy . |
| 7 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 8 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 9 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 10 | Then a stranger , who had been sitting unseen round the corner , came up to them . |
| 11 | Joy Prentice , who had been sitting motionless throughout , reached up and pinched a louse out of her head . |
| 12 | This comment is from a daughter who had been giving substantial care to her mother , and explained the situation thus , |