Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 2 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 3 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 4 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 5 | Edward Burne-Jones , who had been at Oxford with Morris and then shared a London house with him , was a regular visitor . |
| 6 | The University of California at Santa Barbara first attempted to headhunt Prof Cheetham , who had been at Oxford University for 26 years , in 1989 . |
| 7 | In turn , Eleanor introduced her to someone else , a young woman named Mary Hammond-Heath , who had been at Oxford with Eleanor , and who was not much interested in being married . |
| 8 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 9 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 10 | Wilikins had been the name of her first husband , Henry , who had been at King 's School , Birmingham with Swan in the 1960s . |
| 11 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 12 | Before long though , Harold meets his future wife Isobel , who had been at college with Agnes Fogerty , and they live happily ever after . |
| 13 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Monaco de Villa , a Milanese , who had been at Otto 's coronation , was employed in a dual role between the two courts and through him Innocent probably conveyed his conditions for accepting Otto . |
| 16 | Cameron did not mind about that , even when Harvey Broadribb , who had been at Juillard with him , won the Academy Award for his work on the movie . |
| 17 | An elderly man with a white pointed beard was being shepherded into a chauffeur-driven car by the short rough-haired woman in a thick tweed suit , who had been at Rupert 's house that evening in the autumn ; a little man carrying two heavy-looking suitcases was hurrying away as if to catch a train ; a group of younger men and women was standing on the pavement , talking and laughing . |
| 18 | The Portuguese took an action against Clerke in the High Court of Admiralty , supported by testimonies from an English ship 's master who had been at Fermeuse , though no conclusion to the action has been found . |
| 19 | She said it was a routine enquiry and the police were interviewing everybody who had been at Ken O'Mara 's farewell . |
| 20 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 21 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |