Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] have been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 2 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 3 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 4 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 5 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |