Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventeen-year-old Michael Nield , who had also been on guard duty , was immediately arrested . |
| 2 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 3 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 4 | Of the three quarters ( 78 per cent ) of those registering as unemployed who had previously been in work , only six per cent volunteered that they had become unemployed as the result of a temporary job coming to an end . |
| 5 | Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service . |
| 6 | Lastly , there was Gordon Alston who had previously been in Benghazi when the town had been under British control . |
| 7 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 8 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 9 | The boy , who had only been in care for a short while before the incident , is now in secure accommodation . |
| 10 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 11 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 12 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 13 | Some were novices who had never been on jungle training . |
| 14 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 15 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 16 | His memories of the period are a mixture of Glasgow patter-merchant and re-cycled Hollywood cool : he was a Blues Brother who had never been to Chicago . |
| 17 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 18 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 19 | When John Thelwall , a well-known democrat and agitator , who had recently been on trial for treason , happened to call and then decided to stay for some time , the strange community fell under suspicion . |
| 20 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |