Example sentences of "who had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 2 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 3 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 4 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 5 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 6 | In May 1991 , justices made an order committing two children , who had been living with their mother following the separation of their parents , to the care of the local authority . |
| 7 | A previously well 15 year old , who had been living with friends , became acutely violent and confused shortly after his return home . |
| 8 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 9 | His eldest son James , who had been living in Stirling castle , was persuaded to join the malcontents . |
| 10 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 11 | An English poet , Harry Fainlight , who had been living in New York dropped in . |
| 12 | It was reported on Nov. 17. 1989 , that Sylvain Bamba , a former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice who had been living in exile since 1963 , had announced the formation of an opposition Union for Congolese Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie congolaise — UDC ) , with himself as its chairman . |
| 13 | The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s . |
| 14 | The plight of the girl was discovered after her dad , who had been living in Spain , contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin . |
| 15 | Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 18 | Hugh , who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee , waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace . |
| 19 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 20 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 21 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
| 22 | Ianthe , who had been thinking in terms of daffodils and lemon barley water , had not seen herself being so practical . |
| 23 | It is a sad and generally unrealised truth that the client who had been investing for upwards of nine months , probably knew considerably more than a new dealer . |
| 24 | Angela , who had been sniffing throughout Sontag 's boastful litany , leaned across to me and whispered : ‘ Would n't you f*****g know ? ’ |
| 25 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 26 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 27 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 28 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 29 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 30 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |