Example sentences of "people who [vb past] be on " in BNC.

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1 He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake .
2 There were ladies in expensive dresses , and people who had been on the train on ‘ red-petticoat day ’ .
3 There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission .
4 In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man .
5 He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah .
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