Example sentences of "man who [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 2 | Was it possible that Barrymore was in fact the man who had been watching Sir Henry in London ? |
| 3 | I decided I must try to find the man who had been watching us . |
| 4 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 5 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 7 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 8 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 9 | A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’ |
| 10 | Together with Toby Freely , the fresh-faced young man who had been sitting next to Tom Tedder , she brought up , modestly , the rear of the exodus . |
| 11 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 12 | She glared up at the man who had been invading her dreams , for a second not even sure if she was awake or asleep . |
| 13 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 14 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 15 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 16 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 17 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 18 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 19 | He had the look of a man who 'd been pacing about restlessly , his tie loose about his throat , his shirt collar undone . |
| 20 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 21 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 22 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 23 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 24 | I 'm happy to say I 'm going to marry the young man who has been courting me , Sergeant Troy . |
| 25 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 26 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 27 | For he is the kind of man who has been driving women round the bend for generations . |
| 28 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 29 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who has been missing from Gartloch Hospital in Glasgow for six days . |
| 30 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |