Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 2 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 3 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 4 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 5 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 6 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 7 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 8 | Davies , who had been jailed for similar offences eight years ago , will be sentenced next month . |
| 9 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 10 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 11 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 12 | Other politicians who had been investigated for alleged collaboration with the Soviet KGB included deputy Virgilius Cepaitis [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 14 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 15 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 16 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 17 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 18 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 19 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 20 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |
| 21 | Smith Opon Acak , all of whom had been detained for more than a year , appeared in court in January 1990 charged with plotting to overthrow the government , having " levied war against the government of Uganda " between Nov. 2 and 18 , 1987 . |