Example sentences of "who had been [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vengsarkar , who had been ticking along nicely , was now upstaged by Azharuddin . |
| 2 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 3 | He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester . |
| 4 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 5 | The threat led to the resignation on March 4 of the head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Traffickers ( FELCN ) , Col. Faustino Rico Toro ( who had been appointed as recently as Feb. 26 ) , and was followed by that of the Interior Minister , Capobianco Ribera , after accusations in the US press of his association with drug trafficking [ see p. 38094-95 ] . |
| 6 | Naomi Headleand , who had been killed so tragically , so tragically young , when driving herself quietly and soberly home from Glyndebourne one night . |
| 7 | Sufferers are never too young nor too old , too early in the disease nor too late to get into recovery when they truly want it : the " Big Books " of other Fellowships record many stories of recovery in sufferers who had been given up as hopeless . |
| 8 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 9 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 10 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 11 | A brown kisscurl fell over his forehead ; he chortled often , showing the sly , boyish grin and the self-satisfied air of one who had been told once too often that he was a lovable rascal . |
| 12 | Her dark grey eyes in her pale face had the look of one who had been crying fairly often and recently . |