Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 2 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 3 | A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally . |
| 4 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |
| 5 | The 13 candidates included President Mathieu Kerekou , an avowed Marxist who had been in power since his military coup of 1972 , and his Prime Minister , Nicéphore Soglo , a former World Bank official . |
| 6 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 7 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 8 | During the following week over 30 political prisoners were reportedly released , including a number of bodyguards and assistants to Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 9 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since mid-1989 , was permitted a visit by her husband , Michael Aris , and two sons during May . |
| 10 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 13 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |
| 14 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |
| 15 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 16 | A memorandum by Thomas Cromwell in 1533 of matters to be discussed with the King includes things to be said on the departure of the Bavarian ambassador , the interrogation of a friar named Reysbye , the treatment of certain other friars who had been in contact with Rome , the folding of cloth in the north of England , the offer made to the King by the executors of Lord Dacre of the South in an important test case , and the affairs of a reputed idiot named Ralph Francis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Two schoolgirls from the convent who had been in Dublin to buy books with one of the young nuns turned to see what was happening . |
| 19 | The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days . |
| 20 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One knew the troops who had been in action . |
| 23 | This meant in effect that Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition leader who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , was removed as the party 's secretary general . |
| 24 | The man on the train , the teacher who had been in Lancashire for three years , but felt he never really knew it until Walter Machin revealed it to him . |
| 25 | Fields had spent some months , and a modest amount of money , examining the feasibility of a new transatlantic airline ; he had approached several key figures who had been with Laker Airways and solicited their interest ; he had begun to make enquiries about purchasing an aircraft . |
| 26 | In 1980 , Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return . |
| 27 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 28 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 29 | Mark 's face brightened for he remembered who Miss Broome was — a nice-looking youngish woman who had been to church the last two or three Sundays . |
| 30 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |