Example sentences of "where they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 2 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 3 | They 've 4 Olympic oarsmen on board , 2 gold medallists and 4 blues and the word from the water at Wallingford , where they 've been training . |
| 4 | Most graduates move away from the town where they 've been studying when they start work , so may be looking to transfer their bank account to a more convenient branch . |
| 5 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 6 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 7 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
| 8 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 9 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 12 | Kevin Brown , Patrick Seymour and Lou Collins ran into the listening-post from the cots where they had been lying dozing . |
| 13 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
| 17 | As refugees from the war in Bosnia this holiday camp at Korcula near Dubrovnik is in stark contrast to the camps where they have been living . |
| 18 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 19 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |