Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freemen who failed to swear were to be mutilated and exiled . |
| 2 | ‘ The man who put the dog in Andrus 's tomb and the man who got stabbed are one and the same Zikr . ’ |
| 3 | They then put us on trucks to bring us here and anyone who tried to escape was beaten senseless . " |
| 4 | On the edge of the gravel near the front door , Cameron and James Menzies conferred with Allan , Donald Stewart the blacksmith , and John Stewart the pedlar from Newbigging , who seemed to have been everywhere in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | This was not the case with Morgan who seemed to have been more influenced by the Rousseauean tradition and who viewed the institution of private property with some misgivings . |
| 6 | At a beautiful moon bridge , he passed a naked living woman who seemed to have been burned from head to toe and was red all over . |
| 7 | Marius Steen , the giant who seemed to have been looming over his life now for a week was about to be confronted . |
| 8 | Stupid Aries might have been more to the point , because the only person who seemed to have been burnt by her fire was herself . |
| 9 | Among the leaders who came to complain was Andrus . |
| 10 | Amongst the people who came visiting was a young Maidenhead medical student . |
| 11 | Most of us who 'd complained were lesbians . |
| 12 | The entertainment value for the people who paid to watch was non-existent , but it is difficult to criticise the players who tried their best in the conditions . ’ |
| 13 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 14 | As always when he felt deserted , he went to see Chester Klein , patron of the arts by diverse hands , a man who claimed to have been excised by fretful lawyers from more biographies than any other man since Byron . |
| 15 | The estate also faces a challenge from Basquiat 's former bookkeeper , who claimed to have been his manager . |
| 16 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 17 | In making his proposal Gore cited new evidence made public by the Financial Times and by ABC News Nightline , which quoted an Iranian arms dealer , Jamshid Hashemi , who claimed to have been present at two meetings between the late William Casey , the Reagan campaign chairman , and members of the Iranian government , held in Madrid in late July and mid-August 1980 . |
| 18 | The documents were seized from an MI operational centre after the Commission heard the testimony of a former Mozambican soldier who claimed to have been paid by the security forces to carry out political murders . |
| 19 | Actually , a friend of mine who was once in the TA had a pal called George who claimed to have been spirited away to Venus in a UFO . |
| 20 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 21 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 22 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 23 | The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales . |
| 24 | Reporters were n't welcome , but most of those who did attend were unhappy with what they heard . |
| 25 | ‘ It appears that the baby who did survive was doing maybe two-thirds of the work . |
| 26 | Teachers were in short supply and those who did volunteer were naturally steeped in the Scottish tradition of education . |
| 27 | The children who did come were not familiar . |
| 28 | The only people who dared to interrupt were the American Forces , our valiant Allies , off-duty from the many American Air Bases in the area . |
| 29 | I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun . |
| 30 | The Great Powers who wished to intervene were primarily interested in the destruction of Bolshevism rather than in national independence per se . |