Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Graduate looked all set to be his first , but Ernest Lehman , who was producing and adapting Edward Albee 's acid drama of marital non-bliss , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? , persuaded Warner Bros to hire the untried Nichols .
2 Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’
3 Toledano , who was bound and gagged , was the third soldier kidnapped and killed by Hamas in the five-year revolt against Israeli rule .
4 AN 87-year-old woman who was bound and gagged by robbers in her home was praised by detectives last night .
5 But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else .
6 A coroner has recorded an accident verdict on a nine year old boy who was killed when two chair-lifts collided at a Californian ski resort .
7 The father of an eight year-old-girl who was killed when a DIY store trolley fell on top of her has welcomed new safety guidelines for their use .
8 THE funeral of Flight Lieutenant Stephen McNally , who was killed when the RAF Hercules on which he was travelling crashed in the Scottish Highlands , takes place next week .
9 This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen .
10 THE VICTIMS of the post-election IRA bomb that devastated a large area of the City of London — the largest to have exploded in London since the war — included a 15-year-old girl who was killed and her eight-year-old sister who was still in hospital last night .
11 A former international sportsman who was stabbed while he was out jogging says the attack has n't put him off running in the future .
12 A man who was stabbed and beaten with a metal bar on the doorstep of his own home , says he feared for his life .
13 The Spanish State also had its concerns : as it was investing so much in the collection , who was to say that the Baron had perfect title to all the works ?
14 After all , it was maintained , who was to say that the Dunstaple treatment was not just beginning to work each time as McNab began to apply his treatment ?
15 Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco , but who was to say that Falangist purists might not mobilize it against him ?
16 She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ?
17 They suggested the reasons were trying to find out who was speaking and looking quickly from one person to another with rising anxiety .
18 Perhaps the Minister of State will be kind enough to inform the House who was consulted before the Government introduced the Bill , and who approves of it .
19 The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company .
20 In another instance a man who was recorded as Laurencio Forester in 1332 , and his son as Willelmo de Fortereshaye , was himself recorded both in earlier and later documents as Laurence de Forstereshegh .
21 The discovery , made while cleaning the area , came as a surprise to Zahi Hawass , General Director of Antiquities for the pyramids and Sphinx , who was recorded as saying , ‘ What a shock !
22 A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills .
23 A man who was beaten and stabbed while out jogging patrolled city streets until he found one of his attackers .
24 Alcoholic Linda Ann McMullen , who was beaten and suffocated to death
25 Nigel had arranged that his son-in-law ( his daughter Caroline 's husband ) , who was living and working in Denmark , and his nephew James from California would come over and help me with the move .
26 This copper said the Tunnel Mob 's bin done fer a ware'ouse job in Wappin'. 'E told me they was still lookin' fer two more blokes who was involved but they do n't know who they was . ’
27 They have had to explain why patients can sometimes provide vivid descriptions of their own resuscitation , explaining how it was done , who was involved and even what was said .
28 Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night .
29 The family of a five year old boy who was crushed when a wall collapsed are to sue their local council .
30 ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again .
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