Example sentences of "[noun] who had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a horse who had been broken with the wrong sized bit when his teeth needed attention and under a saddle with a broken tree which rubbed his back . |
| 2 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 3 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 4 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 5 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 6 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 7 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 8 | The journalists who had been hired by him were based in Manchester . |
| 9 | Frank Reed , the US director of the Lebanese International College who had been kidnapped in Beirut in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , was released into Syrian custody in West Beirut on April 30 . |
| 10 | In a significant break with his predecessor , Mr Major offered junior and middle-ranking ministerial posts to several senior backbenchers who had been overlooked by Mrs Thatcher or had been kept out of her government . |
| 11 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 12 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 13 | With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll . |
| 14 | ’ Bobby who had been sitting by me . |
| 15 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 16 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 17 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 18 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 19 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 20 | Similarly , in Moore v Central Electricity Generating Board , 1974 IRLR 296 — the facts of which may cause those interested in civil liberties some concern — an employee who had been held in custody for one month pending trial was dismissed after being convicted not of the original charge preferred but of related offences . |
| 21 | The Times of India reported the case of a striptease artiste in the coastal resort of Goa who had been sued by the management of the five-star Hotel Kalimpong , when she refused to undress during her performance at the hotel restaurant one evening . |
| 22 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 23 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 24 | The distinction is not always easy to keep in mind : Lord Denning , Britain 's most experienced judge in defamation cases , published a book in which he criticised a jury in Bristol for acquitting defendants who had been charged with rioting . |
| 25 | Of the five men commemorated by name , two were royal administrators who had been drawn into Gloucester 's orbit by his activity in Wales . |
| 26 | Of the five men commemorated by name , two were royal administrators who had been drawn into Gloucester 's orbit by his activity in Wales . |
| 27 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 28 | Mortimer was a Marcher lord and a Contrariant who had been imprisoned in the Tower and threatened with death ; he escaped to Paris in 1323 where he became the centre of a group of exiles and fugitives . |
| 29 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 30 | At the instance of the King , Parliament passed an Act decreeing that all ministers in Scotland who had been ordained since 1649 must have their appointments confirmed by the bishop of their diocese . |