Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
| 2 | ‘ I had about 700 quid and I had some mates who 'd been in Clock DVA , the Sheffield band . |
| 3 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 4 | The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days . |
| 5 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 6 | Ten Kurds who had been in detention were released from Haslar yesterday with permission to stay while their applications for political asylum are processed . |
| 7 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 8 | Most of these services were designed primarily to help the physically disabled , especially those who had been in work but who were unable to continue as a result of a crippling accident or disease . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 11 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 12 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 13 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 14 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 15 | Students who had been in receipt of a CASE award from SERC were rather more likely to be in employment or waiting to start work than those with regular studentships . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 18 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 19 | From the hospital foyer he tried to telephone the Substitute who had been in court all afternoon and wanted to hear how things had gone . |
| 20 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 21 | The French and English kings sometimes had to help those who had served them to regain their freedom : in 1444 Sir John Handford , who had been in France for more than twenty years , received 15,000 livres from Henry VI as a contribution towards the purchase of his freedom ; while Jean de Rodemack got a substantial sum towards the payment of his ransom from René d'Anjou , and Georges de la Trémoîlle received a seigneurie in Poitou from Charles VII in lieu of ransom promised but not paid . |
| 22 | Others who had been in contact with the maid also sickened and died , so the local residents determined to take what action they could to prevent it spreading . |
| 23 | A memorandum by Thomas Cromwell in 1533 of matters to be discussed with the King includes things to be said on the departure of the Bavarian ambassador , the interrogation of a friar named Reysbye , the treatment of certain other friars who had been in contact with Rome , the folding of cloth in the north of England , the offer made to the King by the executors of Lord Dacre of the South in an important test case , and the affairs of a reputed idiot named Ralph Francis . |
| 24 | British diplomats , who had been in contact with the Chinese foreign ministry for weeks trying to get them to resume talks , had expected a stormy ride yesterday . |
| 25 | The court heard that Wilson , who had been in South Africa since the offences , married in May of this year . |
| 26 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |
| 27 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 28 | ’ There is also the quotation from Irenaeus ( one of the early Church Fathers , 140–202 AD ) who had been in Rome . |
| 29 | In 1980 , Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return . |
| 30 | One of those to return on Dec. 5 was PAC administration secretary Joe Mkhwanazi , who had been in exile since 1962 . |