Example sentences of "man [pron] [vb past] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 2 | With the man who had been Simon 's team-mate . |
| 3 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 4 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 5 | Most important of all , she was married to the man who had been Paula 's husband . |
| 6 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 7 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 8 | The men of No. 1 Troop , all volunteers , included Territorials ( men who had been civilians doing part-time army training ) , some regulars , and reservists like Lance-Corporal Weatherall who were recalled to the colours . |
| 9 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 11 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 12 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |