Example sentences of "women who had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 2 | In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together . |
| 3 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 4 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 5 | On the way back to the Hankses ' cottage with Anna , Seb and the navvies met one of the gipsy women who had been enquiring after the missing girl in the village . |