Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shy Nina , who was related to the Wedgwood pottery family , left him her run-down mansion and contents worth £170,000 when she died aged 83 . |
| 2 | Pearce , who was related to Vanbrugh by marriage , acquired a substantial number of his drawings for buildings designed after about 1718 . |
| 3 | , James ( 1539–1597 ) , lawyer and parliamentarian , was born in 1539 , the eldest son of William Morice [ q.v. ] of Chipping Ongar , Essex , courtier and MP , and his wife Anne Isaac of Kent , who was related to Sir Thomas Wyatt and ( Sir ) Thomas Wroth [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | In addition , patient 202 has a consistent allelotype with patient 203 and patient 302 who was affected on orthopantograms also seems to have inherited the high risk alleles . |
| 5 | Soon they returned to the poteau mitan clutching a struggling figure who was bound with ropes of sisal cord . |
| 6 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 7 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 8 | Although the New Zealand team had a top wicketkeeper in Ken James , who was compared to Bert Oldfield , in ability , the Kiwi fielding was never up to the standard of today 's players . |
| 9 | When he took over in October 1964 , he enjoyed two other advantages : his majority of four ensured that the fractious Parliamentary Labour Party would have to behave ; and , apart from Patrick Gordon Walker , whom he appointed Foreign Secretary , and James Griffiths , who was sent to the newly created Welsh Office , only he possessed Cabinet experience . |
| 10 | Anyone like me who was sent to boarding school at an early age will identify with the personal difficulties of the young royals . |
| 11 | She only remembered that right from the beginning he took her with him , and it was she who was sent to the doors to ask politely if they had anything to sell . |
| 12 | Among them was 15-year-old Jeffrey Horler , who was sent to Feltham , 200 miles from his home in Great Yarmouth . |
| 13 | Special commissions of inquiry into maladministration were set up , but Edward reserved his special venom for Archbishop Stratford , who was sent to Brabant as surety for the king 's debts . |
| 14 | They fell foul , on the other hand , of Simon de Mont fort , who was sent to the south-west of France by King Henry III in 1248 to curb the unruliness there and ended up assaulting the Viscount of Soule in his castle in Mauléon . |
| 15 | Djore Držić 's nephew , Marin Držić ( 1508–67 ) , was a poor scholar who was sent to the University of Siena on a stipend from the Ragusan Senate . |
| 16 | Several animations use voice-overs which recount real-life experiences and dramas — sometimes autobiographical , as in Karen Watson 's ‘ Daddy 's Little Bit of Dresden China ’ ( 1988 ) , or researched and compiled from interviews , such as the story of Josie O Dwyer , an ex-prisoner who was sent to a reform centre at the age of 14 in Marjut Rimminen 's ‘ Some Protection ’ ( 1988 ) . |
| 17 | He took with him to England Theodore 's son Alamayahu , who was sent to Rugby School and then to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst , where he fell ill and died , aged nineteen . |
| 18 | Helen , who was sent to prison for annoying neighbours by playing the star 's biggest hit at full volume , was freed yesterday . |
| 19 | It follows the case of a youth who was sent on safari while awaiting sentencing . |
| 20 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |
| 21 | Last year , the case of Elizabeth Broderick , who was jailed for killing her husband and his new wife , became a cause celebre among feminists . |
| 22 | Tilghman , who was jailed for five years , fined £3,250 , reduced to the ranks and dismissed the service , is now serving his jail term in America . |
| 23 | Who was jailed for passing secrets to the Guardian in 1984 ? |
| 24 | The Sun , in the title , the photograph of ‘ the mask of fear ’ and the body of the text , refers to the assaults as ‘ a carbon copy of the brutal rapes carried out by pervert Malcolm Fairley , the so-called Fox , who was jailed for life last Tuesday ’ . |
| 25 | A former student who was jailed for her part in the Olivia Channon drugs scandal , has begun a new career as an opera director . |
| 26 | The headmaster of a private school for boys , who was jailed for twelve years for sex offences against eight of his pupils , has failed in his challenge against the convictions . |
| 27 | It includes Eddie Browning , who was jailed for the murder of Marie Wilkes , and Michael Shirley who 's on hunger strike protesting his innocence … |
| 28 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 29 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 30 | A judge 's daughter who was jailed for supplying drugs claims that drugs and sex are freely available at the prison where she 's serving her sentence . |