Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only people who suffered were the prisoners , who were not allowed to go for walks any more . |
| 2 | You know they were sort of they were cheap stalls and and the people who came were the bargain hunters . |
| 3 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 4 | He wanted to make sure he knew who 'd been the problem and would n't let me off the hook . |
| 5 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 6 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 7 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 8 | Among those who followed was the party 's education spokesman , introduced as Dr Bevan Morris . |
| 9 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 10 | Who had been the loser ? |
| 11 | He then did a double-take at the sight of Catherine Crane , who had been the object of the most careful attention from everyone else in the room from the minute she had arrived . |
| 12 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 13 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 14 | Most of the cost was met by the wealthy Congregationalist , Abel Buckley , who had been the MP for Prestwich Division in the Home Rule Parliament of 1885 . |
| 15 | The man chosen to be the ‘ Charter Mayor ’ was Mr. James Clements , who had been the Chairman of the Brentford District Council in 1903 , and as such had been present when King Edward VII had opened the new Kew Bridge . |
| 16 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 17 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 18 | Husayn enjoyed the active support of the Israeli government , which proceeded to deport or detain activists identified not only with the left ( who had been the target of stringent measures before ) , but also those of the mainstream PLO . |
| 19 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |
| 20 | Society chairman Col. David Hanson paid tribute to Roy Robins who had been the driving force behind the environmental improvement . |
| 21 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 22 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 23 | It was he , Thiercelin was now convinced , who had been the target of the Müller plot . |
| 24 | In the Academy , he was a pupil of John Graham who had been the famous artist David Wilkie 's teacher . |
| 25 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 26 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 27 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 28 | As they went their separate ways , critics gave Martin , who had been the straight man of the team , little chance of finding the kind of success they predicted for Lewis . |
| 29 | The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution . |
| 30 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |