Example sentences of "[indef pn] who had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 2 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 3 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 4 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 5 | She was the one who had been knitting . |
| 6 | Her dark grey eyes in her pale face had the look of one who had been crying fairly often and recently . |
| 7 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |