Example sentences of "who had been [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 2 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett , who had been charged with keeping Nosey from killing the chickens that pecked in the inn yard , followed Sharpe out to the road . |
| 3 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 4 | British businessman Neville Norton , 59 , who had been barred from leaving Saudi Arabia since 1975 because of a financial dispute , was released on Aug. 13 and returned to London , reportedly following a personal appeal to King Fahd by the UK Prime Minister , John Major . |
| 5 | & Bar ( r ) , who had been credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft and sharing in the destruction of two more . |
| 6 | Tilda , who had been vexed at missing the actual shipwreck , went straight down to Willis 's cabin to ask him if he would draw her a picture of it . |
| 7 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 8 | By March , he 'd won the right to remove incompetent principals — like the one in the Bronx who had been convicted of possessing crack cocaine . |
| 9 | For example , the case of an actor ( Marbé v Edwardes ( George ) Daly 's Theatre [ 1929 ] 1 KB 269 ; Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller Ltd v Oliver [ 1930 ] AC 209 ; the claims in these cases were for breach of contract but the same principle applies in tort ) and the case of a professional golfer who had been prevented from taking part in competitions by his injury ( Mulvaine v Joseph ( 1968 ) 112 SJ 927 ) . |
| 10 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 11 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 12 | US military officials said that only about 130 people remained in detention out of a total of 5,300 Panamanians who had been held for questioning since the invasion . |
| 13 | Marshal Saxe had never been happy about the operation he was to command ; nor was Louis XV , who had been talked into supporting the attempt by his ministers . |
| 14 | In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray . |
| 15 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 16 | GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion , Katrin Krabbe , and her colleagues , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller , who had been accused of tampering with a urine sample , had a four-year suspension lifted here yesterday , clearing the way for the three athletes to participate in this summer 's Olympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 17 | The three athletes , who had been accused of tampering with a urine test in South Africa in January , were restored to competition after the three-man commission , who held a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days in Darmstadt , declared there had been ‘ holes in the chain of evidence ’ during and after testing by South African anti-doping control officials . |
| 18 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 19 | President Mobutu Sese Seko signed a decree on Feb. 10 granting amnesty to Zaïrean exiles who had been accused of threatening state security through speech , writing or in any other manner ; it also covered those who had been removed from official posts or banned by the government from involvement in civic and political life . |
| 20 | Bowe , who had been accused of having an optic measure of heart , had to mine deep into previously untapped resources to resist a man who had every physical disadvantage . |
| 21 | The 20-year-old single woman , who had been accused of attempting to murder the baby on 25 November last year , admitted the reduced charge . |
| 22 | On Oct. 28 , 1989 , 625 rebels who had been captured in fighting in the north and north-east since 1986 and detained without trial were released . |
| 23 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |