Example sentences of "where [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 2 | Gazing about at the walls flanking the quad , it was possible to calculate the exact position where Heather had been standing when she took it : the extreme south-western corner . |
| 3 | The guy with the hedgehog pullover , the one called Jenkins , was standing in the Paddock about twenty feet from the conifer where Werewolf had been hiding . |
| 4 | Nogai swore and shot swiftly twice , once at the target , and once to the side where Burun had been standing . |
| 5 | It was resurrected by the rising of Corunna which , by a reversion to the revolutionary federalism of 1808 , claimed to be the capital of all Galicia , and by risings in Barcelona , Saragossa , and Pamplona where officers had been plotting with the poet Quintana ( 21 February to 5 March ) . |
| 6 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 7 | She stood up and clambered clumsily over the fallen rocks towards where Klift had been standing . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , emergency control boards were established at a number of mines where strikes had been continuing . |