Example sentences of "who [vb past] be [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade .
2 Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady .
3 ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want .
4 We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ .
5 The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives .
6 Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
7 ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons .
8 Looking round its walls , Breeze realized that the sea must be nearer than she had thought , for there were so many little tablets to people who had been drowned off this coast .
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