Example sentences of "who had been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A legacy from Flying Officer D J L Andrews , who had been a Flight Engineer on Stirling and Lancaster aircraft and who remembered Sussexdown in his will , provided a major source of funds for the project . |
| 2 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 3 | Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van . |
| 4 | Coghill , who had been a friend since they read English together as undergraduates in 1923 , was now the English tutor at Exeter College . |
| 5 | Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java . |
| 6 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 7 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 8 | I was with a player from the Vienna Philharmonic who had been a Russian prisoner of war , so he spoke some Russian . |
| 9 | The figure was Major Jaromir Nechansky who had been a commander of a paratroop regiment , and who had played a prominent role in the anti-Nazi uprising of 1945 . |
| 10 | Mr Husseini beat another cleric , Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Abou Torabi , who had been a prisoner of war in Iraq for many years , and Dr Abbas Sheibani , a former minister . |
| 11 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
| 12 | This dog was then mated to Rintelna the Fatale , who had been a puppy purchased from Capt. Roy-Smith . |
| 13 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 14 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most striking case was that of William Patrick James Fair ( Bill Fair ) who had been a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Carmelite College in Cork . |
| 16 | A recently discovered ‘ memoir ’ of an old bedridden resident has , for December 1860 , the following : ‘ In an old house that was next to Mr Wagoner 's shop near the Red Lion there lived a man by the name of C … , who had been a gentleman 's servant , but had lost his character and situation and was very lazy . |
| 17 | ’ So this particular sergeant who had been a PC when I had been an acting sergeant , sat alongside me . |
| 18 | Bertha , who had been a student at art college in Manchester , wed Percy Gaunt and went with him to Shanghai . |
| 19 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 20 | The actual printing was produced by a retired man who had been a compositor all his life . |
| 21 | In Admiral [ later Admiral of the Fleet ] , George Lord Anson , Pitt had a First Lord of the Admiralty after his own heart , a resolute professional who had been a captain at 27 . |
| 22 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 23 | Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ? |
| 24 | The three brothers raised a sum upon Post Obit Bonds through one Louis Weltzie , Clerk of the Prince of Wales 's Kitchen , and a man who had been a Lottery Office Keeper near Carlton House , called Annesley Shee . |
| 25 | By an Act of 1808 ( 48 Geo III cap 123 ) , anyone who had been a year in prison for a debt of less than £20 was thought to have suffered enough and must be allowed to go home . |
| 26 | Attlee , who had been a member of the Simon Commission and a non-dissenting contributor to its very gradualistic report , had always been extremely cautious in his statements on colonial issues . |
| 27 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 28 | The man who had been a passenger in the taxi then produced a long-bladed knife and attacked her . |
| 29 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 30 | I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later . |