Example sentences of "who was [verb] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 2 | Colin Stagg has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son . |
| 3 | The general public prosector has ordered the release of Mr Wolfgang Vogel , a prominent lawyer and former close aide of Mr Honecker who was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of ‘ criminal blackmail ’ . |
| 4 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 5 | The formation of the BDDA was the idea of Francis Maginn , an Irishman , who was born near Cork on 21 April 1861 . |
| 6 | Several other composers also set Mackay lyrics , including Eugen d'Albert , who was born in Glasgow on 10 April 1864 . |
| 7 | The most eminent was Thomas Rotherham , archbishop of York , who was replaced as chancellor on 10 May by John Russell , bishop of Lincoln . |
| 8 | The most eminent was Thomas Rotherham , archbishop of York , who was replaced as chancellor on 10 May by John Russell , bishop of Lincoln . |
| 9 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 10 | The court then heard evidence from June Shell , a care assisitant who was working alongside Frak on the night in question . |
| 11 | She looked at the crumpled figure who was fighting for breath on the pillow , perspiration pouring down his anguished face . |
| 12 | Mr Nath recently performed a life-saving operation on Romanian baby Bogdan Ursu who was dying of water on the brain . |
| 13 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 14 | A friend , Dick Wixsom , had heard about 1051 , which was now advertised in Trade-A-Plane and he asked his son , Kevin , who was going to Florida on his spring holiday , to find the aircraft and to photograph what he saw . |
| 15 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
| 16 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 17 | you are the journalist from the New York Times who was waiting for Karen on the night she died . |
| 18 | Other members of the queen 's family were also associated with the duke in the 1470s , among them Richard Haute junior , who was knighted by Gloucester on the Scottish campaign of 1482 . |
| 19 | Other members of the queen 's family were also associated with the duke in the 1470s , among them Richard Haute junior , who was knighted by Gloucester on the Scottish campaign of 1482 . |
| 20 | The seventh IAEA inspection team arrived in Baghdad on Oct. 11 , led by Demetrios Perricos , who was quoted in Baghdad on Oct. 22 as saying that the government had , for the first time , admitted research into nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | The " clarification " followed a statement by Maurizio Zifferero , deputy Director-General of the IAEA and leader of the 14th nuclear inspection team [ for 13th nuclear inspection team see p. 39026 ] , who was quoted in Baghdad on Sept. 2 as saying that Iraq 's nuclear programme stood at " zero " following repeated UN inspections and allied bombing during the Gulf war . |
| 22 | I also wanted to see Mussolini , who was coming to Trieste on an official visit , so I wrote to my godmother 's sister , Poldka , who lived there , to ask if she could put me up . |