Example sentences of "who had [adv] been [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 2 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 3 | Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard . |
| 4 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 5 | In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 6 | At school next day , even the girls who had n't been asked to the party wished her a happy birthday . |
| 7 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 8 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 9 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 10 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 11 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 12 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 13 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 14 | His second wife was Joan , daughter of William of Standon , who had previously been married to Bartholomew de Briaunzon . |
| 15 | One very reliable source recalled another John Birch who had indeed been sent to prison for the offence mentioned above , and my informant suspects that this is where the confusion initially stemmed from . |
| 16 | In Grampian all psychiatric patient contacts since 1963 are notified to the Grampian psychiatric case register , search of the register found no outpatient with presenile Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 17 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 18 | At the top of the social pyramid was the aristocracy , large landowners whose families had long served Moscow ( the boyars ) and ex-appanage princes who had gradually been drawn to the metropolis . |
| 19 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |