Example sentences of "who [verb] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a minute later , Howard Bingham , who has been Ali 's personal photographer and best friend for nearly 30 years , appears in the doorway . |
| 2 | The programme opens with While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At ’ , and an interview with the man who has been Santa Claus to generations of children travelling on the Worth Valley Railway 's ‘ Santa Specials ’ : Jack Rowell , who lives on the railway in the Station House overlooking its terminus at Oxenhope . |
| 3 | Rogan , who has been Sunderland 's discovery of the season since being switched to the centre of defence by Crosby three months after his £350,000 transfer from Celtic , reverted to left back in the 2–2 draw at Brighton , when his first goal for the club salvaged a priceless point . |
| 4 | It is a cruel twist of fate for a player who has been Leicester 's first choice since his £50,000 move from Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 5 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 6 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 7 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 8 | Stroud , who 'd been Stokle 's common law wife , planned to claim life insurance . |
| 9 | According to some reports Barak , who had been Shomron 's deputy for four years , had planned and commanded those carrying out the assassination of Abu Jihad , the PLO " number two " , in Tunis in 1988 [ see p. 36436 ] . |
| 10 | With the man who had been Simon 's team-mate . |
| 11 | But a former official who had been Lady Thatcher 's senior advisor , warned of the dangers of America turning aside from Europe . |
| 12 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 13 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 14 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 15 | To Louis Terrenoire , he cited the example of the nineteenth-century statesman Thiers , who had been Louis-Philippe 's minister in 1840 , and returned to power thirty-one years later . |
| 16 | With a convulsive swallow , Virginia stared at the beautiful woman who had been Guy 's fiancée . |
| 17 | They were de Maizière , Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , erstwhile ( CDU ) president of the Volkskammer and acting East German head of state , Günther Krause , also of the CDU , who had been de Maizière 's state secretary and a key negotiator of the terms of unification , Rainer Ortleb , vice-president of the unified FDP , and Hansjoachim Walther of the DSU . |
| 18 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 19 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 20 | Following the death of James I , Charles I became King of England , in 1625 , and the Duke of Buckingham ( who had been James I 's favourite ) retained his influence over the throne until he was assassinated at Portsmouth , in August 1628 , but not before he had arranged the marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria of France . |
| 21 | Kraal who had been Woil 's greatest mocker and enemy now became his greatest friend , for he admired Woil 's cunning and quick thinking , and grieved to see him so downcast . |
| 22 | Roosevelt sent Winston Churchill a report on Iran by Major General Patrick Hurley , who had been President Hoovers secretary of war , and had visited Iran in May 1943 . |
| 23 | Most important of all , she was married to the man who had been Paula 's husband . |
| 24 | The new President , Robert Gabriel Mugabe , who had been Zimbabwe 's Prime Minister since independence , was elected by Parliament in December 1987 [ see p. 35626 ] . |
| 25 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 26 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 27 | The Mahmud Pasa concerned , he suggests , is thus not the Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasa , but rather Kassabzade Mahmud Bey , who had been Mehmed II's tutor when he went to Manisa in 1443 and who was a leading figure in the events of 1444 . |
| 28 | She dredged up her past , recalling the girl who had been Jazzbeaux , who had been a War Chief . |
| 29 | Brooke Hayward was the daughter of actress Margaret Sullivan , who had been Henry Fonda 's first wife , and producer Leland Hayward . |
| 30 | Argentina 's Jorge Recalde , who had been Sainz 's main challenger through the six-day rally fell to third place , 59 minutes behind the leader after both the rear and front drive shafts of his Lancia HF Integrale failed . |