Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey .
2 It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade .
3 John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works .
4 The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment .
5 His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months .
6 ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons .
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