Example sentences of "a [noun sg] who have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |
| 2 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 3 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 4 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 5 | However , if you train with a coach who 's been under pressure conditions , it can make a difference in your own performance . ’ |
| 6 | He gives terrible parties up there — I know a girl who 's been to them . |
| 7 | Comments from a teacher who had been at the school for two years added credence to the points raised in the above dialogues stating that there is ‘ racism ’ amongst staff within the school : |
| 8 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 9 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 10 | He let his house in Chelsea furnished for the year , with the usual proviso that his own staff should remain to run it — he has a housekeeper who has been with him for years , and one daily maid . |
| 11 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 12 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 13 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |
| 14 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 15 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 16 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 17 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 18 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 19 | A MAN who has been at the centre of planning in North East Wales for more than 30 years will retire this month from public office , and turn his attention to private consultancy . |
| 20 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 21 | Does not the Prime Minister think that that is a terrible indictment of the health policy of a Government who have been in power so long and could have made things so much better ? |
| 22 | Joan was ushered into the king 's private chamber by a manservant who had been with him since infancy . |
| 23 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |
| 24 | A prisoner who 's been on the run for more than six months has been recaptured . |
| 25 | Armed police have recaptured a prisoner who 's been on the run for five days after hijacking a taxi and holding a prison officer at knifepoint . |
| 26 | The third doubtfully determined outcome was from a builder who had been in financial difficulties . |
| 27 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 28 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 29 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 30 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |