Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toledano , who was bound and gagged , was the third soldier kidnapped and killed by Hamas in the five-year revolt against Israeli rule . |
| 2 | AN 87-year-old woman who was bound and gagged by robbers in her home was praised by detectives last night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A man who was stabbed and beaten with a metal bar on the doorstep of his own home , says he feared for his life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A man who was beaten and stabbed while out jogging patrolled city streets until he found one of his attackers . |
| 16 | Alcoholic Linda Ann McMullen , who was beaten and suffocated to death |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The family of a five year old boy who was crushed when a wall collapsed are to sue their local council . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 23 | Malcolm Reid , a former deputy commander of the Dominica Defence Force ( disbanded in 1981 ) , who was convicted and imprisoned with John , was also released . |
| 24 | ‘ Does anyone really believe that Israel will sit down with someone who was convicted or involved directly in violence against Jews ? ’ he asked . |
| 25 | He did halt Dave Tiberi in four rounds , the same man who was robbed when challenging IBF middleweight champion James Toney . |
| 26 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 27 | It accused Mr Zhao , who was sacked as party secretary in June , of encouraging the formation of independent workers ' unions during student-led protests . |
| 28 | Terry Butcher , the former England centre half who was sacked as Coventry 's player-manager earlier in the season , has made a surprise comeback as a player . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll give you your letter back , miss — unread , ’ the police-sergeant told Rosalind , with a grin , ‘ but I 'd like to keep the envelope , please , because it 's got a nice glossy surface and the man your sister saw stealing bulbs has left two lovely big fingerprints on it , which may or may not enable us to find out who he is , but will certainly prove whether the gardener who was sacked as the thief is innocent . |
| 30 | A TEACHER who was sacked because some of his lessons were said to be too sexually explicit has won £12,000 compensation for unfair dismissal . |