Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been followed into the hall by the young man who had been with Dom João on the quay , and Sara felt that other eyes were watching from half-open doors . |
| 2 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 3 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 4 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 5 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 6 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |