Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs . |
| 2 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 3 | Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes : |
| 4 | Cardiff will be without their international hooker Ian Watkins , who was sent off in the game with Pontypridd on Boxing Day , and also the Lions three-quarter Mike Hall whose former club Bridgend have not yet granted him a transfer . |
| 5 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 6 | A person who was swept along by the crowd ( in a literal bodily sense ) , or who encountered unexpected barriers when attempting to comply with police conditions , would be able to avail himself of this defence . |
| 7 | ENGLAND manager Keith Fletcher made a wasted trip to Basingstoke yesterday to watch Hampshire 's David Gower who was ruled out of the championship match against Kent by a cracked rib . |
| 8 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
| 9 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 10 | He was laid to rest alongside his son , Arthur , jun , who was shot to death ; his daughter Margaret , who died in mysterious circumstances ; and his mother-in-law Maggie Harrison , who was blown up in a car-bomb attack almost certainly intended to kill Thompson himself . |
| 11 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
| 12 | Support will come from another useful acquisition in Joey Benjamin , 31 , who was kept out of the Warwickshire side last year after impressing in 1990 with 34 wickets at 30 . |
| 13 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 14 | Welshman Gibbs , who was stretchered off near the end of an ill-tempered match with bruised ankle ligaments , will be out of action for at least 10 days . |
| 15 | Barry Butler , who was stretchered off in the 2-1 Deva Stadium win over Brighton , yesterday had Xrays on his injured ankle . |
| 16 | ‘ I keep wondering , ’ said Clarissa , ‘ whether that woman who was pulled out of the canal could be anything to do with Barbs . |
| 17 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 18 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 19 | Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off . |
| 20 | Batty , who was carried off after a tackle by Stewart Robson , added : ‘ I am just relieved I have n't broken it . ’ |
| 21 | Pool Bank has its own ghost , that of an unfortunate wife who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death . |
| 22 | This was given , then I said ‘ You were the gentleman who was brought in from the ‘ Cock ’ are you not ? ’ |
| 23 | Highlights were shown on Cilla Black 's Surprise Surprise show last weekend as part of a special presentation to Peter Carlton , who was brought out of the audience to receive a video of the game . |
| 24 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 25 | A 72-year-old man who was knocked down in the north of the city yesterday by a stolen car was today stable in the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 26 | A PEDESTRIAN who was knocked down by a taxi earlier this month has died in hospital . |
| 27 | A pedestrian who was knocked down by a taxi earlier this month has died in hospital . |
| 28 | Nineteen-year-old Tracy West , of Derwent Street , Darlington , who was knocked down by the car and suffered cuts and bruises . |
| 29 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 30 | As they chatted and laughed about the events of the day they almost fell over Billy who was stretched out in the undergrowth snoozing with a contented grin on his face . |