Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had been on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 2 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 3 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 4 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 5 | There was no sign of the two policemen who had been on duty at the cordon . |