Example sentences of "[noun prp] who [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 2 | The Britons were strong supporters of Albinus who had been the Governor of the Province , it follows that Severus would undoubtedly have dealt with them severely . |
| 3 | In total Oshima named seven senior members of the LDP who had been involved in efforts to force his party to desist . |
| 4 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 5 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 6 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 7 | He had reported their conversation to Adams who had been inordinately pleased . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 10 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |
| 11 | ’ Bobby who had been sitting by me . |
| 12 | The commission to design the memorial chapel was first given to G.F. Bodley ( 1827–1907 ) , an eminent church architect of the late-Victorian period , but Bodley passed it on to Comper who had been his most highly talented pupil . |
| 13 | The Times of India reported the case of a striptease artiste in the coastal resort of Goa who had been sued by the management of the five-star Hotel Kalimpong , when she refused to undress during her performance at the hotel restaurant one evening . |
| 14 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 15 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 16 | A doctor at the scene was unable to save Mr McWhinney who had been flying alone . |
| 17 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 18 | At the instance of the King , Parliament passed an Act decreeing that all ministers in Scotland who had been ordained since 1649 must have their appointments confirmed by the bishop of their diocese . |
| 19 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 20 | Then he had the good fortune to meet Commander D. W. Child RN who had been an intelligence officer in Holland and who Blake had met there . |
| 21 | Senator Juan Ponce Enrile , the leading conservative opponent of Aquino who had been arrested on Feb. 27 on identical charges to those against Aguinaldo on Feb. 27 [ see p. 37250 ] , was released on bail on March 6 . |
| 22 | The Greens held one portfolio , that of Health ; this was held by Bozidar Voljc who had been in the Cabinet since January 1992 . |
| 23 | Cadfael knew of none besides Tutilo who had been out of the enclave that night , but a man intending such a deed would hardly publish his intent or let anyone know of his absence . |
| 24 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 25 | He telephoned Jean , who already knew the news and had cancelled several of his local appointments , including the one with Chief Inspector Salter who had been ‘ so anxious to see him ’ and who was probably even more anxious now , and told her he was preparing to leave for London and his meeting . |
| 26 | In 1934 , Henry Wash resigned as District Chairman as a new appointment took him to Kent and was succeeded by Harold Shearman who had been vice-chairman of the District since 1931 . |
| 27 | Bob Martinez , a former Governor of Florida who had been defeated in the gubernatorial elections [ see above ] , was on Nov. 30 nominated by Bush as Bennett 's successor . |
| 28 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |