Example sentences of "the [noun sg] who [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two schoolgirls from the convent who had been in Dublin to buy books with one of the young nuns turned to see what was happening . |
| 2 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 3 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 4 | The man on the train , the teacher who had been in Lancashire for three years , but felt he never really knew it until Walter Machin revealed it to him . |
| 5 | He said the captain who had been in command of the patrol had been correct to order his men to fire and doing so had probably saved their lives . |
| 6 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 7 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 8 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 9 | There was the man who had been with him and taken the briefcase from the hotel room and who in the morning would go back to the Golani Brigade stationed on the Lebanese border and who would be chided by his fellow officers for having taken leave while the military workload was intense . |
| 10 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 11 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 12 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 13 | Some of the patrol who had been in the Feelgood could have radioed in a report before things started blowing up , or maybe even got away . |
| 14 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 15 | Then the officer who had been on the bed with Katya drew his pistol and shot the old man dead . |
| 16 | From the hospital foyer he tried to telephone the Substitute who had been in court all afternoon and wanted to hear how things had gone . |