Example sentences of "who had been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 2 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 3 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 4 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 5 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 6 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 7 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 8 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 9 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 10 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |
| 11 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 12 | Tam , who had been sleeping on the bed , woke suddenly , scratched himself , jumped down and marched to the door , where he stood , whining imperiously . |
| 13 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 14 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 15 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 16 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 17 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 18 | Dad , who had been sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands , went into action . |
| 19 | Benjamin , who had been sitting on the edge of his trestle bed , got up and opened the door . |