Example sentences of "[prep] which he had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the next dawn Isambard had the news for which he had been waiting ; and the following night he put two parties across the Severn , one upstream from them and one down , and converged upon their hiding-place from either end of the ridge . |
| 2 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 3 | Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother . |
| 4 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 5 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 6 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 7 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 8 | This understanding went on to form the basis for his ensuing therapy , involving both visualization and counselling , which proved highly successful and relieved poor Barry of the symptoms from which he had been suffering . |
| 9 | Sometimes a person would arrive just as the divan on which he had been sleeping was dragged away . |
| 10 | ‘ Hank Stych ! ’ he hailed a startled Boyd , who had half risen from an easy chair , scattering the papers on which he had been working . |
| 11 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 12 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 13 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |