Example sentences of "who have been [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 2 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 3 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 4 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 5 | With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll . |
| 6 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
| 7 | This included Phil Morris , who had been apprenticed to a graphics printer for four years when he joined the company and who was immediately sent by Bernard on a further course in fabric processing . |
| 8 | To summarise , again , survey evidence from Appendix 1 , people who had been educated to a higher level , who were more highly paid , or were in a higher social group , seemed more readily able than average to use APR or credit cost information in choosing among loan options . |
| 9 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 10 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 11 | We were all women , including the daughter of a miner , who had been married to a miner and whose son was now a miner . |
| 12 | The CDU 's choice of Schäuble , 49 , who had been confined to a wheelchair since an attempt on his life in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was the last of a series of leadership elections by all four main parties in November . |
| 13 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 14 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |