Example sentences of "who had [been] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq , for its part , was widely believed to have condoned the " hot pursuit " of the Kurdish activists , who had been conducting guerrilla activities against the Turkish authorities for some 20 years , and indeed it had signed agreements to this effect during the 1980s . |
| 2 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 3 | And , as an example of the caddie who finally got his own back on his player , who had been throwing clubs around in a temper all day : the player said , ‘ I make it about 110 yards to the green ; what club do you think ? ’ |
| 4 | A former Justice Minister who had been elected Speaker only the previous January [ see p. 36943 ] , Ninn-Hansen had come under considerable criticism for a directive which he had issued in 1988 as Justice Minister to immigration authorities to give low priority to reuniting the families of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Denmark . |
| 5 | Vice-chair was Wolfgang Thierse , who had been elected chair of the East German SPD on June 9 , 1990 , in place of Markus Meckel ( himself standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 6 | The new Foreign Affairs Minister was Amr Mohammed Moussa , hitherto permanent representative at the UN , replacing Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , who had been elected Secretary-General of the Arab League [ see p. 38215 ] . |
| 7 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 8 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 9 | Thomas Klestil , who had been elected President in May [ see p. 38929 ] , took office on July 8 . |
| 10 | The veteran diplomat and former Union Minister K. R. Narayanan was elected as India 's ninth Vice-President on Aug. 19 in succession to S. D. Sharma , who had been elected President in July [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 11 | His successor was Jimmy Hudson , who had been elected Vice-chairman after retiring as Field Officer in 1978 . |
| 12 | Foreign Minister Jabir , first appointed on Oct. 3 , was a United States-educated professor of political science , who had been advising King Hussein on the peace process and led the Jordanian delegation to the Madrid conference [ see p. 38594 ] . |
| 13 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 14 | Imtiaz Shaheen , had flown to Bardera to evacuate UN and other relief personnel , who had been providing food and care to approximately 200,000 famine victims . |
| 15 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
| 16 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 17 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 18 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 19 | Cranston 's wife was making herself comfortable on the bench whilst the gallant who had been eyeing Benedicta had now moved closer and was talking quietly with her . |
| 20 | Staff and pupils were on first name terms , so that Miss Clifton was Cliffy to her face , and Anna Essinger , who had been dubbed Tante Anna in German , was known simply as T A. The children contributed to the maintenance of their school , to the extent of making furniture and cleaning and repairing the building . |
| 21 | ACT was African Consolidated Theatres , who had been touring Shakespeare 's Merry Wives of Windsor with a cast headed by Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies ; Dulcie Howes had arranged the dances and performed in them . |
| 22 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
| 23 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 24 | The existing law stated that only those who had been granted citizenship would be enfranchised . |
| 25 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 26 | Who had been drinking rum without telling me ? |
| 27 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 28 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 29 | Running downstairs we found that my eldest sister , Gertrude , who had been helping Mum , had caught her fingers in the rollers . |
| 30 | As a gesture to regional manager Barbara Cumming 's 17-year-old daughter Claire , who had been receiving treatment at the Centre , the runners decided to put their sponsorship money towards new equipment , and had a magnificent response with generous help from staff , friends and suppliers . |