Example sentences of "who [vb past] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 2 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 3 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 4 | , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister . |
| 5 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 6 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 7 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 8 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 9 | He ran a youth club with a man called Jefferson , who had been a regular soldier . |
| 10 | He was a large , imposing man who had been a noted athlete and I am sure he created a favourable impression on my parents . |
| 11 | I was with a player from the Vienna Philharmonic who had been a Russian prisoner of war , so he spoke some Russian . |
| 12 | Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java . |
| 13 | ‘ The man who had been a rich merchant , and who was now a beggar , had to make brooms for the town . |
| 14 | In November Lord Woolton , a man of no party affiliation but who had been a successful Minister of Food , was appointed to the task , and was given a seat in the War Cabinet . |
| 15 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 16 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 17 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 18 | By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings . |
| 19 | In pursuing his dream of nuclear powered aircraft Tank came to know an Austrian refugee named Richter who had been a nuclear physicist in Hitler 's Germany and was another of the new generation of South Americans . |
| 20 | This was the case with Bernard-Ezi V d'Albret ( 1326–59 ) or Gaillard I de Durfort ( c.1299–1356 ) , who had been a notable canon lawyer , prebendary or Saintes , Agen and York , and archdeacon of Périgueux . |
| 21 | All senior ministers retained their posts ( in some cases renamed ) , although the Justice portfolio , hitherto one of those held by Guido De Marco , was given to Joe Fenech , who had been a parliamentary secretary in the outgoing government . |
| 22 | Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van . |
| 23 | Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing . |
| 24 | Stanley Steward , its first chairman — who had been an electrical manufacturer in the private sector — mobilised considerable pressure from the ‘ county ’ set on his consumer Consultative Council , and lobbied both the Government and the Central Authority for a subvention . |
| 25 | As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania . |
| 26 | He had also asked Henry Victor Dyson , a lecturer at Reading University who had been an exact contemporary of Tolkien 's as an undergraduate at Exeter College . |