Example sentences of "[pron] who had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 2 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 3 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 4 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 5 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 6 | The name given to a demonic or maniacal GHOST of someone who had been evil during his lifetime . |
| 7 | If he could find someone who had been through the mill as he had and then collaborate with them , great things were possible . |
| 8 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 9 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 10 | In fact the use of the phrase " verbal directive " is a further indication that this signal was not drafted by someone who had been intimately involved In the events of the previous ten days , as Brig Low had been . |
| 11 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 12 | He wore a formal suit and had the pressured air of someone who had been side-tracked from an important engagement . |
| 13 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 14 | When he left , the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration , as to someone who had been bereaved . |
| 15 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 17 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 18 | John Tutchin , himself a Nonconformist and someone who had been involved in Monmouth 's rebellion , frequently attacked the High Church lower clergy in his Whig periodical , The Observator , but was prepared to defend the Church hierarchy , saying that we had " the best set of Bishops that ever England yet knew " . |
| 19 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 20 | It also amends the Official Secrets Act to allow someone who had been prosecuted to argue that releasing information was in the public interest . |
| 21 | Everyone knew someone who had been involved . |
| 22 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 23 | In death , the pathologist would report , he resembled somebody who had been hit full-on by a heavy lorry . |
| 24 | McLeish took her briskly through the course , making the now familiar speech about Angela Morgan 's death being treated as a case of murder , which meant taking statements from everyone who had been associated with her and might be helpful . |
| 25 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 26 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 27 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 28 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 29 | Genetic tests had matched up the body parts on Moloch with everyone who had been there , apart from Ace and Christine . |
| 30 | Blanche coughed and responded that the police were talking to everyone who had been at the farewell party on the sixth floor , including Parkin and Pargeter . |