Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both had that deathly pallor that showed on every soldier who had been wounded . |
| 2 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 3 | Early the following morning a British soldier who had been in the orphanage was admitted to the hospital suffering from a high fever , so the carabinieri still had one English prisoner to guard . |
| 4 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 5 | We had a horse who had been broken with the wrong sized bit when his teeth needed attention and under a saddle with a broken tree which rubbed his back . |
| 6 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 7 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 8 | His life was not like hers and she was simply an outsider who had been forced to come here . |
| 9 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 10 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 11 | I once was engaged to conduct a concert in Mannheim and the pianist who had been engaged was Frederic Lamond . |
| 12 | He was not restricted to making an order of damages , but could actually order a defendant who had been condemned to perform what he had failed to do . |
| 13 | This was subsequently followed in Ansell v. Swift where the defendant who had been lawfully protecting his brother in a fight hit a policeman who sought to restrain him . |
| 14 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 15 | In total Oshima named seven senior members of the LDP who had been involved in efforts to force his party to desist . |
| 16 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 17 | A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant . |
| 18 | The mob was demanding the eviction of Meshketians who had been temporarily rehoused in Parkent after being evacuated in February from other parts of Tashkent oblast ( region ) to escape pogroms against their communities . |
| 19 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 20 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 21 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 22 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 23 | He had reported their conversation to Adams who had been inordinately pleased . |
| 24 | His voice sounded cynical , but then he smiled , almost as if he understood the look of sudden shock on her face , as he once more became that unfriendly stranger who 'd been her brother 's best friend . |
| 25 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 26 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 27 | A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally . |
| 28 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 29 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 30 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |