Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] [vb past] 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 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 23 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 24 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 25 | Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority . |
| 26 | He had a house in Gloucestershire and another at Kensington Palace , and staff who had been with him for years , accustomed to his simple and masculine lifestyle and accustomed to ruling it . |
| 27 | The staff who had been in the kitchen when Zambia had landed in the packing cases had gone off duty soon afterwards . |