Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 2 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 3 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 4 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 5 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |