Example sentences of "who have [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 2 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 3 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 4 | Lamy , who has been seeking a drive in Formula One for this year 's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estroil next month , tested for Lotus at Silverstone last week . |
| 5 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 6 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 7 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 8 | Their debut single , ‘ Do n't Fight The Feeling ’ on Bump ‘ N ’ Hustle Music , features the abrasive soul vocals of Janette Sewell , who has been causing a buzz via a recent Joey Negro project and a solo outing on the ‘ Totally Wired 8 ’ compilation . |
| 9 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 10 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 12 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 13 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 14 | One of the most notable is supermodel Cindy Crawford who has been hailed a ‘ global role model ’ for women . |
| 15 | I am a senior enrolled nurse who wants to hear from any enrolled or senior enrolled nurse who has been awarded a staff nurse grade F , or above , in 1988 , or subsequently through the grading appeals system . |
| 16 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 17 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 18 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |
| 19 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 20 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 21 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 22 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 23 | It 's our members in these industries who 've been given a hammering since privatization and who need as much support as possible to give them the confidence to face further difficult years ahead . |
| 24 | The long term waiting list is also down to five thousand four hundred , that 's the number of people who 've been waiting a year or more , a third of them for plastic surgery . |
| 25 | But it 's the sorta thing I 'd expect to hear from older people who 've been fighting a fight and are n't interested in anything I 'm doing . |
| 26 | Couples who 've been planning a baby often feel this relief and excitement . |
| 27 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 28 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 29 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 30 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |