Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vengsarkar , who had been ticking along nicely , was now upstaged by Azharuddin . |
| 2 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 3 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 4 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 5 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 6 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 7 | He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester . |
| 8 | The brothers were at Finsbury Park station on their way from Heathrow when a youth , who had been wandering aimlessly , pulled a knife and stabbed Jonathan . |
| 9 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 10 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 11 | A C D L trial with the teacher , who had been studied previously . |
| 12 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 13 | The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them . |
| 14 | The report claimed that at least 26 people had been killed in the attack , mostly government employees who had been singled out and shot . |
| 15 | A doctor at the scene was unable to save Mr McWhinney who had been flying alone . |
| 16 | In patient 4 , who had been operated on before being referred to our institution , neoplastic cells including centrocyte like appearance infiltrated the mucosa , submucosa , and stomach muscles , with sparse extensions into the perigastric conjunctive tissue . |
| 17 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 18 | Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy . |
| 19 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 20 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 21 | But she immediately snatched Victoria , who had been born only 32 hours before , and started giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation . |
| 22 | Hardly had the Padre finished saying the Nunc Dimittis when the Doctor , who had been kneeling innocently in the front row , sprang to his feet . |
| 23 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 24 | The highest count in the alcohol group was 14.8% in a chronic alcoholic aged 49 years who had been drinking heavily since the age of 15 years . |
| 25 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 26 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 27 | There was a house somewhere near , where women who had been beaten up by their husbands stayed . |
| 28 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 29 | The second specialist who had been called in — a man by the name of Adams — had assured Brian that his wife would recover in time , but he did not share his optimism . |
| 30 | Michael , who had been looking forward to his 21st birthday next month , has recently been taken off a life support machine . |