Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 2 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 3 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 4 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 5 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 6 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 7 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 8 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 9 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 10 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 11 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |