Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 2 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 3 | In 11 patients , all of whom showed a good clinical response to a gluten free diet , repeat biopsy was deemed unwise because of frailty or associated health problems . |
| 4 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 5 | Allen Paulson , who sold a half share to Sheik Mohammed for ten million dollars , reasoned he 's either not trained on or needs a psychiatrist . |
| 6 | THE councillor who attacked a controversial version of Swan Lake is now considering seeing the performance . |
| 7 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 8 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 9 | An artist 's impression of a man who attacked a twelve year old girl has been released by police . |
| 10 | Here detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 11 | Detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 12 | THREE teenage youths who attacked a lone policewoman were being hunted yesterday . |
| 13 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 14 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 15 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 16 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 17 | Jesus was not a social reformer with a social message who produced a socio-economic blueprint for society . |
| 18 | The central hall in the gallery is dedicated to the work of Josef Manés who produced a wide range of subject-matter including fine portraits of the rising bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | The architects were Potter & Hare of Salisbury , who produced a spacious well-lit building with curved Purbeck stone gables . |
| 20 | SCOT Colin Montgomerie , who produced a disappointing performance in the Moroccan Open , is also facing a possible £1,000 fine for bringing the European PGA Tour into disrepute . |
| 21 | We should pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) , who produced a proper , comprehensive mortgage rescue package long before the Government considered taking any of their panic measures . |
| 22 | And Hateley , frozen out of the England scene , but who produced a high-quality display in Rangers ' 1-0 European Cup win against CSKA Moscow on Wednesday , said last night : ‘ I think Gary Lineker was quite right to criticise Graham Taylor . |
| 23 | Hastings , who produced a magnificent kicking effort , said : ‘ One or two tears were shed afterwards . |
| 24 | ‘ It is better than my earlier victory over Terry Griffiths because I played much better , ’ said Higgins , who produced a mature break of 99 in the eighth frame to kill off Terry 's revival as he battled back from a 3-0 deficit . |
| 25 | Hercules needed the help of his cousin , Iolaos , who plunged a burning stake into the central head . |
| 26 | His mentor during the stay was the Secretary of State for Wales , George Thomas ( later created Lord Tonypandy ) , who became a lifelong friend as a result . |
| 27 | She is an iconoclast who became a grumpy conservative , rejecting the modern industrial world in a grand wholesale manner . |
| 28 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 29 | They had three sons and three daughters , the youngest son being Henry Thomas Colebrooke [ q.v. ] , who became a noted Sanskrit scholar . |
| 30 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |