Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 2 | According to some reports Barak , who had been Shomron 's deputy for four years , had planned and commanded those carrying out the assassination of Abu Jihad , the PLO " number two " , in Tunis in 1988 [ see p. 36436 ] . |
| 3 | With the man who had been Simon 's team-mate . |
| 4 | To Louis Terrenoire , he cited the example of the nineteenth-century statesman Thiers , who had been Louis-Philippe 's minister in 1840 , and returned to power thirty-one years later . |
| 5 | With a convulsive swallow , Virginia stared at the beautiful woman who had been Guy 's fiancée . |
| 6 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 7 | Most important of all , she was married to the man who had been Paula 's husband . |
| 8 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 9 | This , Alice knew , was partly directed at Bert , who had been Jasper 's accomplice . |
| 10 | She thought now , she might be better to go and sit with Nan-Nan who had been Mama 's nurse but who in spite of that was not so very old . |