Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 2 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 5 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any Palestinian who had been arrested for " security violations " would be barred . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maha was a lushly beautiful woman who had left the husband who had been arranged for her . |
| 10 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 15 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 16 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 17 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 18 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 19 | In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray . |
| 20 | It is a sad and generally unrealised truth that the client who had been investing for upwards of nine months , probably knew considerably more than a new dealer . |