Example sentences of "[det] who had been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 2 | The lords agreed to this proposal immediately , and established a new council which consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury , William of Wykeham Bishop of Winchester , and eight of those who had been appointed to the advisory committee , including March , Arundel and Stafford . |
| 3 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 4 | Moreover , 70 per cent of those who had been admitted to grammar schools left school at the minimum permitted age , namely fifteen . |
| 5 | However , this appointment was not approved by those who had been attracted to the movement by Houston 's populist oratory and Prosser was assaulted by two members of Shoreditch branch . |
| 6 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 7 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |