Example sentences of "who was [verb] [adv] [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 | two more winners to finish off with … longjumper Carl Howard from Oxford took the national under 20 title again … his winning leap 7 point five two metres and … weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from the Olympics last year after a mix up over drugs was a winner again in the British Senior Championships at Crystal Palace … |
| 6 | A weightlifter who was sent home from the Barcelona Olympics after failing a drugs test WILL be allowed to compete in the next games . |
| 7 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 8 | After the service , Tim was buried on a windswept hillside just 25 yards from the resting place of Johnathan , who was killed outright by the blast 12 days ago . |
| 9 | The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | He sent a lad along who was limping badly from the ulcers between his toes caused by an infestation of the chigoes : Ariel tended him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We , have I told you about the policeman who was fixed permanently at the ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 18 | " There 's been a death in his family , " Tom said to the barman who was looking curiously at the pale , wide-eyed young man . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't see what 's so funny , ’ said Robert , who was looking nervously down the street . |
| 20 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 21 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 22 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By the time of the conference the CDU in the east was led by western politicians in Brandenburg ( by Ulf Fink ) , Saxony-Anhalt ( by Werner Münch ) and in Saxony ( by Minister President Kurt Biedenkopf , who was elected earlier in the month ) . |
| 25 | Now she jabbed the toe of her smart Italian shoe in the dog , who was snuffling about under the table . |
| 26 | 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 " ) . |
| 27 | ‘ He tackled a player who was getting up after a challenge from someone else — on the touchline . |
| 28 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 29 | Once she came to Mansfield Street with the King , and stayed over four hours , arranging and playing with everything , much to the chagrin of a lady in waiting who was kept firmly outside the drawing room ! |
| 30 | 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 . |