Example sentences of "who had [been] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |