Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 2 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 3 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 4 | She looked like a girl who had been tripping all night . |
| 5 | At Cambrai in 1076 a Cathar who had been judged heretical but not sentenced was being held in the local jail . |
| 6 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 7 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 8 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 9 | The woman who died was driving this pick-up truck when it hit an ambulance travelling in the opposite direction along the A417 , half a mile out of Cirencester . |
| 10 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 11 | Together with Toby Freely , the fresh-faced young man who had been sitting next to Tom Tedder , she brought up , modestly , the rear of the exodus . |
| 12 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 13 | This comment is from a daughter who had been giving substantial care to her mother , and explained the situation thus , |
| 14 | At its inception only seven senior officers were involved , to assist the Chief Officer who had been delegated particular functions by the Council , and to act as a senior management team . |
| 15 | The whole of the small bowel with mesentery and mesenteric vessels were removed from a 15-year-old female accident victim who had been certified brain-stem dead . |
| 16 | Dr Henry Sacheverell was a High Anglican cleric who had been delivering violent attacks on Dissenters , occasional conformists and Low Churchmen for several years . |