Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 2 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 3 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 4 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 5 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 6 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 7 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 8 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |
| 9 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 10 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 11 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 12 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 13 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 14 | Often there was scant evidence of academic activity , and this prompted criticism from some of those users who had been to mainstream schools . |
| 15 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 16 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 17 | The third doubtfully determined outcome was from a builder who had been in financial difficulties . |
| 18 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 19 | Uhde , a young collector and dealer who had been on friendly terms with both painters since the early pre-Cubist days , in a book entitled Picasso et la Tradition Française which appeared in both French and German in 1928 , stressed the cardinal part played by Braque in the formation of Cubism . |