Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soldiers were being guided by treaty Nez Perce , who were ambushed on 17th July by Joseph 's warriors . |
| 2 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 3 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 4 | Eighteen patients who were diagnosed on radiological grounds as having malignant bile duct strictures had negative cytology and no histological confirmation of malignancy . |
| 5 | Police are still searching for two boys who were pictured on closed-circuit security screens taking James from the Strand . |
| 6 | The drama began after the man 's colleagues , who were working on neighbouring boats off the Southport coast , became concerned about their friend . |
| 7 | But even he notes that Maxwell would telephone ‘ as often as six times in an evening to staff who were working on political reports ’ . |
| 8 | The committee called in George Stephenson , Reid Clanny and Holmes who were working on safe lamps and ventilation . |
| 9 | One of the first complaints was made by three members of CND who were told on 7 July 1986 by the Tribunal ‘ that after careful investigation it was satisfied no contravention of the [ statutory ] criteria had occurred ’ . |
| 10 | The hopes of the Jacobites came to be centred on James 's offspring , who were agreed on all sides to be enchanting children : Louise Marie , born in June 1692 after the great disappointment of La Hogue , whom James himself nicknamed ‘ la consolatrice ’ , i.e. his ‘ Solace ’ and — the real threat to William and his heirs — the so-called Prince of Wales , James Francis Edward , the ‘ warming-pan baby ’ whose birth , on 10 June 1688 , had really cost James his throne . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although he did know George Gardner , who was born on 19th September 1778 , he did not mention meeting his father Daniel Gardner , the portrait painter who was born in 1750 and died in 1805 . |
| 14 | Pendley Goldfinch , who was born on 27 September 1980 and bred by Joanne Yates . |
| 15 | Rudi Anton Bali , who was born on 8 December 1979 and bred by Mr and Mrs Radcliffe . |
| 16 | Gbos Gaytimes , who was born on 21 November 1976 . |
| 17 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
| 18 | He was succeeded by George Bamford who was appointed on 17th September 1521 and stayed in office until 1533 . |
| 19 | Among the six candidates on the short list were the Rev. Elkanah Hoyle and the Rev. George Porter , and it was the latter , a graduate of Christ 's College , Cambridge , who was appointed on 20th January 1792 . |
| 20 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 22 | Lambert who was leading on this occasion , ordered the formation to go into line astern for the attack . |
| 23 | Among those extrajudicially executed was Jacky Caraïbe , director of Radio Caraïbe , who was seized on 30 September by soldiers , beaten in front of his family and taken away . |
| 24 | Salomons had one son , who was drowned on active service in the Dardanelles in 1915 , and four daughters . |
| 25 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |