Example sentences of "who [verb] [be] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 2 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 3 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 4 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 5 | Then one day the main guy who 'd been peeking at us turned up and asked if he could take some pictures of us . |
| 6 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 7 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 8 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 9 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 10 | 10–11 Donald Urquhart who had been teaching at the Lotts school left to become a student at Edinburgh University and was succeeded by Malcolm McPhail . |
| 11 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 12 | The 16-year-old victim , who had been browsing at stalls , fell screaming as her attacker tried to escape . |
| 13 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 14 | The gallery represents those painters and graphic artists from eastern Berlin who have been working at the dissolution of figuration into pure chromatic values and abstract formal structures . |
| 15 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |