Example sentences of "who [vb base] [be] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Now the few who do are banding together
2 Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen .
3 They 've gone , all those people who 've been marching around inside my head : Mum , Dad , teachers , infuriating old Brian — even Cal who 's everyone 's friend when I 'm nobody 's friend but she 's special to me …
4 Yeah , so that means that people who 've been living here before has has been ripping catalogues off and things like that .
5 Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row .
6 Those people who 've been holding off buying anything just in case prices drop still further could now find they 've missed the boat .
7 ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department .
8 The band , who 've been gigging only sporadically , will play at least one London show before the end of November .
9 The band , who 've been gigging only sporadically , will play at least one London show before the end of November .
10 The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims .
11 And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again .
12 Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe …
13 The TV presenters , who have been living apart since May , sadly told of their decision to separate .
14 The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits .
15 Vendors who have been holding off would have to sell because of their financial commitments .
16 So I mean those of you who have been getting appallingly low marks and there are some of you in this set and I do n't get this every year .
17 That difficult situation is made infinitely worse and more galling to colleagues who have been rising repeatedly , question after question , without success , when a Conservative Member swans in , three quarters of the way through Scottish Question Time , and is instantly called .
18 All those who have been sticking religiously to their macrobiotic diet sheets while dreaming wistfully of soft boiled eggs and buttered soldiers can probably breathe again ( but watch this space ) .
19 His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation .
20 His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation .
21 RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively .
22 In May 1990 we carried out our own investigation into the story of the alleged " Bleiburg Massacre " , with the aid of Dr Aripand Thurn-Valsassina , the owner of Bleiburg Castle and Mr Robert Plan of the American OSS who led the leading column of the Croats to Bleiburg ( both of whom were present when Brig Scott received the Croat Generals ) , and of Yugoslav historians who have been carrying out their own researches into the massacres in Yugoslavia in 1945 .
23 So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time .
24 Once at Stonham the primary school pupils get off the bus leaving room downstairs which is soon filled by some of the people who have been sitting upstairs .
25 All the students , even those who have been staring out of the window , react to this .
26 If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently .
27 Talks broke down today between the Soviet and Japanese delegations who have been negotiating over recent territorial clashes over culture-krill-harvesting operations off the island of Sakhalin .
28 And finally we return you to America to party on down with those incredibly nice chaps from TEENAGE FAN CLUB , who have been winning over all and sundry with their boyish charm , roguish antics and , occasionally , pop music .
29 Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months .
30 Would-be buyers who have been returning home empty-handed ( because they have not been offering sufficiently high prices ) have not learned that it is necessary to outbid other buyers ; would-be sellers who return home with unsold goods or resources ( because they have been asking prices that are too high ) have not learned that they must , if they wish to sell , be satisfied with lower prices .
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