Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 2 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 3 | His eldest son James , who had been living in Stirling castle , was persuaded to join the malcontents . |
| 4 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 5 | An English poet , Harry Fainlight , who had been living in New York dropped in . |
| 6 | It was reported on Nov. 17. 1989 , that Sylvain Bamba , a former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice who had been living in exile since 1963 , had announced the formation of an opposition Union for Congolese Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie congolaise — UDC ) , with himself as its chairman . |
| 7 | The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | The plight of the girl was discovered after her dad , who had been living in Spain , contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin . |
| 9 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 10 | Ianthe , who had been thinking in terms of daffodils and lemon barley water , had not seen herself being so practical . |
| 11 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 12 | Then Duncan 's son Malcolm , who had been sheltering in England all this time , joined forces with the Earl of Northumbria and , with Edward the Confessor 's approval , invaded Scotland in 1057 . |
| 13 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 14 | Martha turned to her sister , who had been watching in awe as the miraculous answer to her prayer was provided . |
| 15 | In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together . |
| 16 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 17 | On arrival , the leading group met up with Bob Melot who had been hiding in the area for several weeks gathering intelligence . |
| 18 | A woman accomplice , who had been hiding in one of the cubicles , came out and the two ran off , leaving the victim sprawled on the floor , said Acting Insp Smart . |
| 19 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 20 | The refugees , who had been staying in camps in Croatia , were accompanied by Jean Kahn , president of the European Jewish Congress , which made the appeal for more action from European countries and Israel to provide a refuge for Bosnians . |
| 21 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 22 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 23 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 24 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 25 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 26 | Temple , 19 , in his first year in the ABA and who had been working in Fawcett 's butchers shop since 5.30 in the morning was over the moon with his hard earned win over Wales 's Barry Jones . |
| 27 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |
| 28 | Doctors had been deeply worried about the 4,000 refugees from Prague , who had been camping in the embassy grounds in squalid conditions , surrounded by ankle-deep mud and sleeping in shifts on the available beds . |
| 29 | The effect of the strike was defused by a 6.5 per cent government pay offer made to teachers and civil servants on Oct. 22 , the promise of concessions to striking nurses ( who had been camping in front of the Health Ministry for three weeks ) , and a series of measures to end protests by farmers . |
| 30 | She was born in Smyrna , a member of a British family who had been trading in Turkey for over 130 years . |