Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster of a private school for boys , who was jailed for twelve years for sex offences against eight of his pupils , has failed in his challenge against the convictions . |
| 2 | The gunman , who was jailed for 18 months , fired into the ground when Sgt Forth , then working in CID , and another officer arrived at the scene . |
| 3 | Tilghman , who was jailed for five years , fined £3,250 , reduced to the ranks and dismissed the service , is now serving his jail term in America . |
| 4 | But the officers ' dedication led to the conviction of Carl Dodds , of Blackfell , Washington , who was jailed for six years at Durham Crown Court last December for robbery . |
| 5 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |
| 6 | Who was jailed for passing secrets to the Guardian in 1984 ? |
| 7 | Martin Houston from South Link in Andersontown who was jailed for seven years last October for a horrendous catalogue of crimes against young boys will be eligible for home leave in just six months time . |
| 8 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 9 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 10 | She was married to Dr Neil 's captain who was killed in nasty Africa , as poor Dr Neil nearly was . ’ |
| 11 | She glanced at Guido who was watching with wry amusement . |
| 12 | Two of these were from one patient with newly diagnosed and radiologically active terminal ileal Crohn 's disease who was treated with elemental diet for four weeks . |
| 13 | Although we could not confirm this finding statistically , none of the small number of our patients aged less than 50 ( n=18 ) who was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid , developed recurrence . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember bursting into tears and blowing my nose and saturating my tiny handkerchief so that it was no use for the rest of the day , ’ writes P. Atkinson , of The Green , West Cornforth , who was revising for mock O-levels at Stand Grammar School for Girls , in Manchester . |
| 15 | At the end of May 1989 committal proceedings began in respect of PC Cherry who was charged with unlawful wounding . |
| 16 | The fourth reported death was that of Agit Salman , a taxi driver who was detained on 27 April and died in Adana Police Headquarters on 29 April after two days ' interrogation . |
| 17 | I telephoned the C I D department at in an effort to trace the officer who was dealing with that case . |
| 18 | ( She even sent away her young man of the time who was staying at another hotel . ) |
| 19 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 20 | It was made available by Harold Wilson , who was to exit in identical fashion in 1970 . |
| 21 | A July editorial by William Rees-Mogg ‘ Breaking a butterfly on a wheel ’ was to help free Jagger and Richards , not so Frazer , or John Hopkins , who was sentenced to nine months for marijuana offences on 1 June . |
| 22 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 23 | The Baroness 's son Marcus Wilberforce ( top ) , who was sentenced to eighteen months ; above , Askham Grange prison |
| 24 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 25 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 26 | The eight included the former governor of Shaba province , Koyagialo Ngbase te Geremgbo , who was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude . |
| 27 | McKee , who was sentenced to 20 years for firearms offences , was recaptured in the Republic three months after escaping . |
| 28 | The crushing defeat of the NDP raised questions as to the political future of Haynes — once commonly described as " the second most powerful man in Barbados " — who was beaten into third place in his own constituency . |
| 29 | Probyn denies killing his wife who was living with another man at the time . |
| 30 | It was mentioned by many of the Greek philosophers and writers , including Aristotle , Plato , and Seneca , and eventually drove pleasure-loving Epicurus , who was plagued by gonococcal stricture , to suicide . |