Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone like me who was sent to boarding school at an early age will identify with the personal difficulties of the young royals . |
| 2 | Helen , who was sent to prison for annoying neighbours by playing the star 's biggest hit at full volume , was freed yesterday . |
| 3 | It follows the case of a youth who was sent on safari while awaiting sentencing . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But the rules official , who was summoned by radio , decided , after much argument , that Harley 's claim was not justifiable . |
| 6 | In this context , he described the life of Charles de Foucauld , a missionary who was killed in North Africa . |
| 7 | The Lancastrian , Henry Tudor , when he heard of what had happened , gathered a force in France and landed in Wales — where he had lived for part of his life — and he opposed Richard III , who was killed in battle in 1485 . |
| 8 | This account too contains some blunders , for it is likely that it was Æthelstan who was killed in battle , at Sherston , and that Edmund brought the relief , but when Thietmar wrote Britannis he was not thinking of Englishmen , whom he always describes as Angli . |
| 9 | The 1970 season produced the only posthumous champion in the history of F1 , Jochen Rindt , who was killed in practice at Monza . |
| 10 | He was scheduled to compete in his 100th , and last , Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but he pulled out of the race in respect for his team-mate Francois Cevert who was killed in practice . |
| 11 | They had a son , who was killed in World War I , and a daughter . |
| 12 | The sentiment was expressed many times over , but it is succinctly put in the following lines by R. E. Vernede , who was killed in action in 1917 : |
| 13 | , Richard ( fl. 1647–1696 ) , republican administrator and Particular Baptist preacher , came of a Gloucestershire family and was a cousin of Richard Deane [ q.v. ] , general-at-sea , who was killed in action in 1653 . |
| 14 | One of the injured was the driver of the BMW , who was treated for chest pains by ambulance staff at the scene . |
| 15 | One of the Bosian evacuees who was treated at hospital in Oxford has been told he wont be able to return home for several months . |
| 16 | They were being instructed by the fourth , who was treated in hospital for shock . |
| 17 | A church service has been held in memory of a man who was stabbed to death in his back garden . |
| 18 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 19 | Colin Stagg has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son . |
| 20 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 21 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 22 | Mr Young , a former executive of the world network Clark Kenneth Leventhal , who was based at member firm Clark Whitehill 's London offices , lost investors £7.5m in his Ponzi investment scheme . |
| 23 | ‘ How , indeed ? ’ said the headmaster , who was tormented with indecision whenever he spoke with Septimus Coffin , how far to take him seriously . |
| 24 | They all seemed to be pleased except the child , who was banished to bed disappointed , and we sat until the sky blackened , talking and sharing their hedgerow broth . |
| 25 | In a move for which he would later pay , he called for the persecution of Deng Xiaoping , who was banished from office and attacked as second only to Liu as China 's ‘ leading capitalist roader ’ . |
| 26 | Quickly getting off the bus , he ran to where the plane had impacted and dragged out the injured pilot who was covered in oil moments before the plane caught fire . |
| 27 | While this conversation proceeded , both men eyed Martha , who was Harry 's first cousin , and who was moving from customer to customer , topping up tankards from an earthenware jug . |
| 28 | The most professional approach which I had was in fact via an intermediary who was acting on behalf of an existing customer of the company who employed me and whose objective was to sound out general interest without disturbing the importance of on-going business relationships . |
| 29 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 30 | He prepared himself to meet the Mahatma on the basis of ‘ personal appeal and conviction ’ , taking to heart the advice of V.S.S. Sastri , who was acting as intermediary , that Gandhi was ‘ like a woman ; you have got to win him ; therefore before you see him , perform all your ablutions , say all your prayers and put on your deepest spiritual robes ’ . |