Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 2 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 3 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 4 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 5 | In early January 1988 about a dozen friends and colleagues , the same people who had been with me on the day John was kidnapped , met at my flat . |
| 6 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 7 | Jane Pargeter was not particularly popular on the programme either , but several people who had been at the party supported her story that she had not left the party at all until Nicola 's body had been found . |
| 8 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 9 | There were ladies in expensive dresses , and people who had been on the train on ‘ red-petticoat day ’ . |
| 10 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 11 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |
| 12 | He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 13 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 14 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 15 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 16 | ( People who had been in a hospital for all the year before they died have been excluded from these comparisons . ) |
| 17 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 18 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 19 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 20 | That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ . |
| 21 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
| 22 | The people who know are in the careers service . |
| 23 | When your parents die , it 's a bit like having a baby — there 's the element of wondering why people who 've been through it did n't tell you what it was really like . |
| 24 | He meets people who 've been to prison , but not all of them are criminals . |
| 25 | ‘ If you go into a Panama restaurant you can always tell the people who 've been to BCI — they 're scratching like you . |
| 26 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 27 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 28 | They 've got people who 've been on it for years and years . |
| 29 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 30 | The fact is of course that what we 're seeing here is a tiny minority of people , and I could bring thousands of people here tonight who 've been in the services , thousands of parents of those people who 've been in the services , who would give you a very very different story . |