Example sentences of "where [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 2 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 3 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
| 4 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 5 | It was neither bright , nor ornamented , nor ill-fitting , but she was such an unfamiliar sight out of boy 's breeches and working boots and fustian shirt that the company burst out laughing , and barracked and whistled and cheered and blew kisses at her on her long walk from the cottage where she had been hiding herself . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 7 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 8 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 9 | Penelope hesitated , hardly remembering where she had been going . |
| 10 | ‘ That was my friend , Estelle , ’ Margrida said , coming out from the drawing-room where she had been answering the telephone . |
| 11 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 12 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 13 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 14 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 15 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 16 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 17 | Kevin Brown , Patrick Seymour and Lou Collins ran into the listening-post from the cots where they had been lying dozing . |
| 18 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 19 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 20 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 21 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
| 22 | During the interval , while one of the barmen was taking a mop and bucket to the front of the stage where everybody had been spitting , I went up to the bar to get some more drinks . |
| 23 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 24 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 25 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 26 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 27 | He arrived in Canterbury on 27 May 669 , having been escorted from Gaul , where he had been staying with Agilbert , by a representative of King Ecgberht , not of Oswiu ( HE IV , 1 ) . |
| 28 | A squirrel skittering on the branches of a lilac drew the Colonel 's attention upwards , away from the ground where he had been digging the soil around his feet with the tip of his walking stick . |
| 29 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 30 | Lafontant arrived openly from the Dominican Republic where he had been living [ see p. 37073 ] , despite orders from the Minister of the Interior , Joseph Maxi for his arrest . |