Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It could have been your child , your parent , or your friend who was killed that day . |
| 3 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 4 | An example is the appalling tragedy of lorry driver Leslie Parsons , who was killed last February when he was just doing his job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife . |
| 7 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even 10 years ago any nurse who was asked this question would probably have replied ‘ I 'm answerable to sister . ’ |
| 10 | A man who was using private land as an unofficial scrap-yard and heavy goods vehicle base has been asked to get the site cleared up . |
| 11 | A Rumanian doctor , Ana Aslan , who was using these injections , noticed that her elderly patients appeared much more lively , and generally healthier after long-term procaine injections . |
| 12 | Who was controlling that bit of cord ? |
| 13 | The intrusion of the false belief that there was an extraterrestrial ‘ god ’ in some form who was controlling earthly development has caused it to abandon completely its responsibility in this respect . |
| 14 | This is of interest for art historians who like to know lots of details of when and by whom a painting was commissioned and painted , how much it cost , who was buying this kind of work , where was it being exhibited . |
| 15 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 16 | His views were criticised by the House of Lords , for example in Pett No. 2 ( H.L. , 1970 ) and even he held in Maynard v. Osmond ( C.A. , 1977 ) that legal representation was not an absolute requirement where a police officer who was facing disciplinary charges was denied legal representation under the Police Disciplinary Regulations . |
| 17 | Notable absentees included President Doe of Liberia , currently threatened by a rebellion ; President Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire , who was facing mounting dissent ; and President Mobutu of Zaïre , who was dealing with a crisis over the alleged massacre of students at Lubumbashi . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 20 | This was the patient who was studied 29 months after his most recent acute attack . |
| 21 | The ex-Cambridge boss replaces Les Chapman , who was sacked 11 weeks ago . |
| 22 | Mr Stott replaces Ms Wendy Henry , who was sacked last month after publishing photographs of Prince William urinating in a London park . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mitchum and Ford were greeted by Lila who was wearing white shorts and a bathrobe . |
| 26 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 27 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 28 | He also said Hannah who was born 8 weeks early was an extremely small , scrawny baby . |
| 29 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 30 | We have a five-year-old daughter , Rebekah , who was born two months prematurely . |