Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 7 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 14 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 15 | The discovery on Nov. 1 of the body of a 20 year-old who had been abducted from his science class prompted the police to raid clandestine prisons which the fundamentalists had established in the vicinity of the campus . |
| 16 | It was later revealed that Mr Argles had employed a boy who had been convicted of offences against young children . |
| 17 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 18 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 19 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 22 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 23 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 24 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 25 | The muscle wastage had caused a dropped foot — like the little girl who had been treated by Alec . |
| 26 | Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face . |
| 27 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 28 | The aunt , possibly , of a girl who had been injured in the accident . |
| 29 | Some girl who would never need to make such explanations , some girl who had been bred in a world which did not admit such dresses . |
| 30 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |