Example sentences of "who had [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 2 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 3 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 4 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 5 | NHL president John Ziegler announced the players , who had been on strike since April 1 , had accepted a final offer and would return to work this weekend . |
| 6 | NHL president John Ziegler announced the players , who had been on strike since April 1 , had accepted a final offer and would return to work this weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ By an odd coincidence only 8% of those who had been on strike got increases while 92% of those who had worked during the strike got increases ’ . |
| 8 | The strike was a show of solidarity with 3,500 workers in sherry production who had been on strike since the beginning of the month over pension rights . |
| 9 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 10 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 11 | There was no sign of the two policemen who had been on duty at the cordon . |
| 12 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 13 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 14 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 15 | The Unit followed up the health of 700 children who had been on Blackpool beach last summer . |
| 16 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 17 | On the other hand , more efficient production was a significant benefit to those who had been on courses . |
| 18 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 19 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 20 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 21 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 22 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 23 | In turn , Eleanor introduced her to someone else , a young woman named Mary Hammond-Heath , who had been at Oxford with Eleanor , and who was not much interested in being married . |
| 24 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 25 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 26 | Wilikins had been the name of her first husband , Henry , who had been at King 's School , Birmingham with Swan in the 1960s . |
| 27 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 28 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |
| 29 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 30 | It is useless to speculate why he chose him , rather than one of the monks of Bec or Caen who had been at Canterbury throughout Lanfranc 's tenure of the archbishopric . |