Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had [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 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The third doubtfully determined outcome was from a builder who had been in financial difficulties . |
| 5 | 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 . |