Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Great strapping brutes they were , with backs on them like the deck of a ship , ’ William 's grandad said , who 'd been thrown off both and knew . |
| 2 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 3 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 4 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
| 5 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 6 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 7 | Honasan , who had been implicated in several coup attempts against Ramos 's predecessor , Corazon Aquino , had been in hiding since 1988 , after escaping from a prison ship moored in Manila Bay [ see p. 36428 ] . |
| 8 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 9 | We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ . |
| 10 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 11 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 12 | ‘ Kan Ying bows to Pan Chao after the Battle of Kazatin ’ , read the description , the huge letters cut deep into the two-ch'i-thick base , the Mandarin translation given smaller underneath , as though to emphasise the point that the message was aimed at those who had been conquered in that great battle — the Hung Mao . |
| 13 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 14 | Balbinder , who had been excluded from all deliberations about his future , had not seen his new school yet . |
| 15 | By the turn of the year , Ellison , who had been linked to some big-name clubs , was looking jaded . |
| 16 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 17 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 18 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 19 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte ) and his generals , who had been accused by all parties in the Congress of violating the Constitution , misleading the government and gross interference in political affairs , over an illegal arms shipment to Croatia . |
| 20 | They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home . |
| 21 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 22 | Looking round its walls , Breeze realized that the sea must be nearer than she had thought , for there were so many little tablets to people who had been drowned off this coast . |