Example sentences of "[noun] who have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 2 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 3 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 4 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 5 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 6 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 7 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 8 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 9 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 10 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 11 | She was a most responsible woman who had been abroad with her husband on service before the war . |
| 12 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 13 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 14 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 16 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 17 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 19 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 20 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 21 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 22 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 23 | Women who have been away from work for some time and are seeking to re-start can take the first steps to a new career at a Women Returners Event to be held tomorrow in Middlesbrough town hall crypt . |
| 24 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 25 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 26 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 27 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |