Example sentences of "which [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 32 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |
| 33 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 34 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |
| 35 | Now I should like the name and address of the authority who employ you , the name of your landlady and that of the school in which you 've been teaching . ’ |
| 36 | When we were watching the end of the film of Brahms 's First Symphony which you 've been editing , I noticed you giving a very accurate two-handed performance of the timpani part on the table in front of you . |
| 37 | Andrew , how far exactly has the scheme which you 've been running gone ? |
| 38 | Right now all these things which you 've been saying are all written down |
| 39 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 40 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 41 | It 's not like reading a story , which you have been doing because you 're a child and you read children 's stories in which you have people and things , it 's about entirely abstract ideas and |
| 42 | This captures the screen on which you have been working and brings up the Pizazz Plus Main Menu . |
| 43 | There has been , over the course of this century , an increase in the number of elderly people , in the levels of pension available from private funds and the state , and in the number of people leaving work , voluntarily or through redundancy , before the accepted retirement age ( which itself has been failing ) . |
| 44 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 45 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 46 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |
| 47 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 48 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 49 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 50 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 51 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 52 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 53 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 54 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 55 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 56 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 57 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 58 | If his hair swayed into her face as they settled in the bus she wanted to hold it , to rub her cheek on it , to put it to her lips , and she thought there would be no pleasure in the world like giving in to him , which she had been anticipating with impatience but anxiety for so long . |
| 59 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 60 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |