Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though passages were booked for Macnab and Margaret Joyce , who were to go first while Joyce settled their affairs in London , the tickets were never used . |
| 2 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 3 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 4 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 5 | An example is the appalling tragedy of lorry driver Leslie Parsons , who was killed last February when he was just doing his job . |
| 6 | The need for guidance on restraint has been fed by the intense media attention on lack of control in homes , which is said to have allowed young people to abscond — such as the case of Sally Ann Catell , who was killed last month in Birmingham while driving a stolen car . |
| 7 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 8 | And former manager Terry Butcher , who was dismissed last January , has taken out a High Court writ for the remaining two years of his contract — an estimated £500,000 . |
| 9 | Mr Stott replaces Ms Wendy Henry , who was sacked last month after publishing photographs of Prince William urinating in a London park . |
| 10 | Since Swales took over at Maine Road 20 years ago , City have won only the League Cup and more than a dozen managers have come and gone , including Peter Reid who was sacked last month . |
| 11 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 12 | Janice Flook ( Mrs Boniface ) writes ‘ after a varied career during which I migrated from chemistry to computing to telecommunications , I am now enjoying the early years of our son Keith who was born last year . |
| 13 | Even when the famous Evangeline , who was elected first woman General of the Salvation Army in 1934 , visited Australia when Eva was six or seven Eva failed to appreciate why everyone was making such a fuss . |
| 14 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 15 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 16 | Germany 's Katrin Dorre , who took bronze in Tokyo , will be looking to follow up her useful 2:27:34 run in the Osaka Women 's Marathon earlier this year and the 1990 Commonwealth silver medalist Tani Ruckle from Australia , who was side-lined last season through injury , is a last-minute addition to the line-up . |
| 17 | Scotland must win the Malta game by a convincing margin , yet Roxburgh could be without McCoist , the scorer of 41 goals for Rangers this season , and Gordon Durie , who was withdrawn last week because of injury . |
| 18 | Davies , who was recruited last August by Wales , was last week confirmed as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 19 | He refused to comment on his holiday with Mary , who was divorced last year from his cousin Angus McKinnon , a doctor . |
| 20 | Zwelakhe Sisulu , who was released last December after two years of detention without trial , must report to the police every day and be indoors after 6pm . |
| 21 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 22 | who was driving last night ? |
| 23 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |