Example sentences of "which [vb past] [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 2 | In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination . |
| 3 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 4 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 5 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 6 | The conference would be held in the USA under the auspices of the UN , which had been mediating in the Cyprus conflict since Turkey invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island in 1974 [ see pp. 26661-66 ; 26709-10 ] . |
| 7 | The unrest which had been escalating in Azerbaijan since the outbreak in February 1988 of the dispute with neighbouring Armenia over the Nagorny Karabakh region [ for December 1989 developments see p. 37128 ] , exploded in mid-January into intercommunal violence across the republic and on the Armenian border . |
| 8 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
| 9 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 10 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 11 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 12 | One time I was in the classroom , and my sparrow , which had been sleeping in my pocket , suddenly woke up and began chirping loudly . |
| 13 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 14 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |
| 15 | One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner . |