Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 2 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 3 | His parents were found dead at their house by firemen who 'd been called to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 4 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 5 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 6 | Because , in the summer of 1969 , people who 'd been consigned to the medical scrap heap , victims of the 1920s sleeping sickness or encephalitic epidemic , really did take up their beds and walk . |
| 7 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 8 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 9 | The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge . |
| 10 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 11 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 12 | The scientific basis for these reductions was the latest research findings on the health of the 90,000 people who had been exposed to the radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and were still alive . |
| 13 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 14 | It was true , they thought , still looking at him : he was a married man who went homo-ing about , who had been exposed to his wife when Timothy Gedge was drunk . |
| 15 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 16 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 17 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 18 | At the a.g.m. of the Booksellers Association in Torquay this week , president John Hitchin announced the names of the 12 booksellers who had been elected to the revamped BA Council for 1993–94 , following a postal ballot of the entire BA membership . |
| 19 | Among the office holders named by the three leaders were : as secretary general Park Jun Byung , a DJP legislator since 1985 and before that an Army general who as commander of the 20th Division had been involved in the violent suppression of the 1980 Kwangju rebellion , a continuing source of bitterness within the South Korean political system ; as floor leader Kim Dong Young , former floor leader of the RDP and one of Kim Young Sam 's closest confidants ; and as chief policy maker Kim Yong Hwan , who had been elected to the National Assembly in 1987 and was one of the most experienced members of the NDRP . |
| 20 | Lawrence , 41 , who had been elected to the legislature in 1986 after an outstanding academic career , was the first woman ever to hold the office of Australian state premier . |
| 21 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 22 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 23 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 24 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 25 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 26 | In our cooperative study , in five general hospitals , renal ultrasonography was scheduled in 1526 consecutive patients who had been referred to the ultrasound service for any abdominal examination . |
| 27 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 28 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 29 | The Ukrainian federalist Mykola ( Nikolai ) Kostomarov , who had been banished to Saratov after the exposure of the Kirillo-Methodian Society in 1847 , became a Professor of History at St Petersburg University in 1859 . |
| 30 | His eldest son Theuderic ( 511 – 33 ) ruled from Rheims , and the sons who had been born to Chlothild , Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) and Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) , ruled from Orléans , Paris and Soissons respectively . |