Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
| 2 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 3 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 4 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 5 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 6 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 7 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 8 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 9 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
| 10 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 11 | Any Palestinian who had been arrested for " security violations " would be barred . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 13 | Maha was a lushly beautiful woman who had left the husband who had been arranged for her . |
| 14 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 15 | One anthropologist who has been noted for attempting to retain a balance between objectivist and subjectivist analysis is Pierre Bourdieu . |
| 16 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 17 | Indeed , it would seem that the purpose for the inclusion of this paragraph in Part I of Schedule 1 is to prevent a person who has been arrested for breach of a condition of his bail from claiming that he is entitled to bail despite that breach of condition , because none of the matters set out in paragraph 2 of that Part of the Schedule apply to his case . |
| 18 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 19 | Some students , particularly those from the Indian subcontinent who have been selected for Commonwealth Scholarships , are capable of performing very well at higher degree level , and then returning to an academic career in their own countries . |
| 20 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 21 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 22 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 23 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 24 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 25 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 27 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 28 | Hell , for a 60-year-old man who has been busted for drugs , received death threats from the Klan and had triple-bypass heart surgery , you look damn good , John . |
| 29 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 30 | Next to the Rector was the Mayor of Brighton , on his left was the Chairman of the Conference , a party worthy who had been knighted for his pains . |