Example sentences of "who have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcoming the news , independent councillor Austen Lennon , who has also been refusing to drink the tap water in his Hazeldene Drive home , said it was ‘ not before time ’ . |
| 2 | Paul Parker , United 's England defender who has also been missing through injury , hopes to prove his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup final in a reserve game against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane this evening . |
| 3 | TobyBalding will have an interesting second-string in Romany King , who has reportedly been working well at Whitcombe . |
| 4 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 5 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 6 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 7 | Alison , a PE student at Brighton University , emerged from the same mini-rugby structure at Bridgehaugh as Kenny Logan — who was capped at full-back for Scotland in the second Test against Australia last summer — and last season 's Scotland Under-21 No 8 , Gareth Flockhart , who has recently been honing his skills , both sporting and agricultural , in New Zealand . |
| 8 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 9 | I remember sitting courtside during the 1976 final , potentially a classic encounter between arch-baseliner , the American Harold Solomon , ( who has recently been working with Mary Joe Fernandez ) and Italian ‘ heart throb ’ of the classic tennis mould , Adriano Panatta . |
| 10 | Phil , who has recently been working in the Department of Computer Science at the University , has now left for his 10 week stint in Namibia . |
| 11 | An owner , who 'd clearly been mistreating it , gave it back to its breeders . |
| 12 | Er who 've just been walking along the road . |
| 13 | When the comm blinked into life , I saw face that I vaguely recognized — a Famlio enforcer named Pulvidon , who had lately been rising rapidly through the ranks . |
| 14 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 15 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 16 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 17 | ‘ I have come to the conclusion , ’ said Betty , who had also been thinking , ‘ that the reason Beuno does n't marry is the same as the reason Elizabeth wo n't have children . |
| 18 | Yanto laughed again as did Sheila , who had also been watching the old man 's antics . |
| 19 | Suddenly we became aware of a strange gentleman who had also been listening , and was now looking coldly at us . |
| 20 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 21 | Amongst dramatic recoveries were two chronically deaf patients who had also been suffering from totally disabling tinnitus . |
| 22 | At about 10.45 he had met William Day , who had also been working late , and they had travelled together to their appropriate homes , the houses being a stone 's throw from each other . |
| 23 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 24 | Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool ! |
| 25 | Miss Bateman , who had nevertheless been listening , said , ‘ I should adore to see — ‘ |
| 26 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 27 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 28 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 29 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 30 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |