Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Beverley , later fifth Duke of Northumberland , and Michelangelo Caetani , an artist who was to succeed his father as Duca di Sermoneta . |
| 2 | Thus he met Tally Jackson , who was to give his name to the book that Liebow finally wrote , Tally 's Corner : |
| 3 | In life , Christopher Jabelman had been an urbane , well-educated man who was drinking his way to oblivion . |
| 4 | I lunched on a cheese roll and a packet of crisps while Bunny — no day is wasted — chatted up the sulking wife or girlfriend of one of the lunch-time Real Ale bores who was drinking his way round the hand-pumps with a group of mates . |
| 5 | In 1039 Earl Leofric of Mercia 's brother Edwin was killed in battle by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn , king of Gwynedd and Powys ( north and mid-Wales ) , who was to extend his power over all his countrymen before meeting his death during Harold Godwinsson 's Welsh campaign of 1063 . |
| 6 | Members of the housing committee of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities were told of a complaint by Tweeddale District Council over a request by a tenant , who was exercising his right-to-buy for the first time , that his fiancee be included as a joint purchaser . |
| 7 | She was a loving mother , tall and thin and delighted at the social success of ‘ Captain ’ Masters , the polite way the bank manager doffed his hat to her , and that she was not the only mother who was sending her son to Oxford . |
| 8 | Nine times former champion Martina Navratilova , who was granted her wish to be seeded second over Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , starts against Australian Michelle Jaggard-Lai . |
| 9 | Nine times former champion Martina Navratilova , who was granted her wish to be seeded second over Arantxa SanchezVicario , starts against Australian Michelle Jaggard-Lai , who has not won a match at Wimbledon in three previous attempts . |
| 10 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 11 | Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) . |
| 12 | A parent who was taking her children to school noted down the number plate . |
| 13 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 14 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 15 | Greg ran up to one of the firemen who was playing his hose on Mr Kronweiser 's little room at the back . |
| 16 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 17 | The kitchen was empty because the kitchen maid had special leave of absence to attend a party given for her aunt who was making her profession in the Religious Life . |
| 18 | He also pointed out that Dudley Nourse dropped him twice ; but his knock helped calm the nerves of a youthful Peter West , who was making his debut as a radio commentator . |
| 19 | Of these , commencing its odyssey some time after Peter 's death , and with the participation of the Academy of Sciences , the most famous was the Second Kamchatka , or ‘ Great Northern ’ expedition , led by the Danish seaman , Vitus Bering , who was to lend his name to the narrow straits separating Siberia from the American continent at the northern extremity of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 20 | After sending Bacci off to get himself a coffee from the Brigadier who was losing his patience with a recruit in the kitchen , the Captain shut out the noise and sat down to wait , glancing now and then at his watch . |
| 21 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |
| 22 | He shot a glance down at Tristram , who was keeping his eyes on his plate , and then across to Jennifer , who was doing likewise . |
| 23 | As the taxi sped them into Rome , Nora had no chance to look at the view ; she was kept busy listening to Louise , who was giving her assessment of the situation . |
| 24 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you think all those people in 19th-century black playing old-fashioned music are irrelevant ? ’ one trend-setter asked a dedicated 17-year-old who was pouring her soul into a French horn . |
| 26 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 27 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 28 | The defendant , who was driving his car in Jermyn Street , was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station , where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 29 | Who was auctioning whose virginity to whom ? |
| 30 | Committee members present included Mrs Carolyne Courage , who brought a bus load of young friends with her son Marcus , who was celebrating his birthday at the ball ; Madame Bernard Giraud , who brought a party of eighteen-year-olds ; Mrs Hugh Taylor , and her daughter Alexandra ; Mrs Diana Wildman , and her daughter Vicky ; Mrs Henry Wilson , and her daughter Samantha ; and Mr and Mrs Charles Lewellyn , and their daughter Sophie . |