Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 2 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 3 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 4 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 5 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 6 | Bernard Tapie , who had been appointed Minister for Towns in April 1992 [ see pp. 38870-71 ; 38820 ] , resigned on May 23 . |
| 7 | In the capital , the certificate relating to Macdonald was received by John Dalrymple , Master of Stair , who had been appointed Secretary for Scotland by King William . |
| 8 | Denmark also led the way in its conservation policies , with the archaeologist J. J. A. Worsaae , who had been appointed Inspector for the Conservation of Ancient Monuments in 1847 , working on a programme of survey and preservation . |
| 9 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 10 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 11 | Alcalde , who had been awaiting trial for supplying operational information to ETA , had contested the general election from prison ; he was not elected , but on the assassination of Muguruza automatically became his successor . |
| 12 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |