Example sentences of "[Wh det] family [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guessed that Turakina had been engaged in yet another attempt to negotiate a match on his behalf , and wondered which family had been involved . |
| 2 | Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland . |
| 3 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 4 | At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries . |
| 5 | She was born about AD 460 , daughter and granddaughter of Roman and Byzantine emperors , whose family had been prominent in Roman politics for over 700 years . |
| 6 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 7 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 8 | , Thomas ( d. c. 1276 ) , revolutionary mayor of London 1263–5 , was a draper with considerable property in the city , whose family had been part of its aldermanic ruling class since at least the 1220s . |
| 9 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |