Example sentences of "which they [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 2 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 3 | By the end of 1941 it looked as though the Communists and their supporters had established the monopoly over the Left for which they had been striving since their foundation . |
| 4 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 5 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 6 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 7 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 8 | Not long afterwards the protesters also dispersed , obeying the order of the chief steward to take with them the newspapers on which they had been sitting . |
| 9 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 10 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 12 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |