Example sentences of "who had [been] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 2 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 3 | I then tried to deduce the events of the previous night and discovered some time later that I had been raped by force by XYZ who had been on the mini bus and followed me home . |
| 4 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 5 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 6 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 7 | A Council member who had been on the visiting party supported the statement and endorsed the Chief Officer 's leadership on the occasion of the visit . |
| 8 | Dr John Hill , who had been with the International Brigade in Spain , Dr Neil Leitch from Queensland , Australia , Dr Fytiaras from Greece . |
| 9 | As they approached , she recognised the leader of the group as being one who had been with the previous rafting party . |
| 10 | All three — economist Zhou Duo , who had been amongst the 211 released on May 10 , Taiwanese-born folk singer Hou Dejin , and newspaper editor Gao Xin — were released in mid-June . |
| 11 | I noted from Gergiev 's conducting CV that he had n't escaped the grip of the Union of Composers : the works or its secretary- general , the ogre-figure of Tikhon Khrennikov who had been behind the 1948 denunciations of Prokofiev and Shostakovich , are a fairly regular feature . |
| 12 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 13 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 14 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 15 | Hammond , who had been in the Foreign Office since 1824 after a distinguished academic career at Oxford , was considered to be ‘ sharp and a glutton at work ’ , and emerges as a powerful figure who over nearly twenty years as the permanent head of the Office brought nearly every aspect of its work under his personal control . |
| 16 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 17 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 18 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 19 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 20 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 21 | He conferred with the Anglican Bishop ( who had been in the same Japanese POW camp as he ) ; and spent hours with a crowd of young Rhodesians , black and white , who are now in action with us . |
| 22 | He made this reconnaissance with Captain Roger Courtney , of the SBS , who had been in the Mediterranean for some months after training around Arran in Scotland . |