Example sentences of "who [vb past] [be] [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model represented more than Dr. Lorrimer who had been unkind to her and William , who had practically thrown them out of the laboratory . |
| 2 | ‘ It was important to respect the independence of older team members who had been used to me as a competitor and find the right balance between coaching and friendship . ’ |
| 3 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 4 | The sympathy of Diodorus — that is , of Posidonius — stretches so far as to admit that even during the war the slaves spared some of the owners who had been kind to them . |
| 5 | She smiled nervously at Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who had been kind to her at the time of their parents ' ungainly departure from life , but uncompromising . |