Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jo heard Selwyn enunciating the words ‘ deep , deep shit , ’ from behind the double doors as she came downstairs and hurried towards the dining room to avoid her father , who was bound to complain about the embroidered blouse and her old white overalls . |
| 2 | Had Vincent sought pain for himself , putting himself forward as the rival of a man who was bound to triumph over him ? |
| 3 | Another influence — arguably of even greater influence — burst upon him at this time , in the form of Irving Layton , the enfant terrible of Canadian poetry then a local school-teacher , who was invited to participate in a poetry workshop on the campus , and did so with great élan . |
| 4 | The architect died in 1352 and his place was taken by Peter Parler from Cologne , who was invited to come from Schwäbisch-Gmünd to work on the cathedral . |
| 5 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 6 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 7 | The daughter who was born died before the age of two . |
| 8 | Bryan , who was pictured sunbathing with a topless Fergie earlier this year , called a mutual friend to get the number of the five-star Walserhoff . |
| 9 | It 's this ‘ woman as victim ’ angle that particularly bothers other female musicians , especially Miki Berenyi , who was moved to write to Angst after Steven Wells ' Daisy Chainsaw interview ( wrongly ) alluded to Katie Jane Garside having been mentally and sexually abused as a child . |
| 10 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 11 | Robinson , who was discovered playing for amateurs Hunslet Parkside , has already paid a price for his dedication to the game . |
| 12 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 13 | Police had been alerted about a man said to be in a depressed state who was reported missing from the Carousel Hostel , Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | She was the one who was expected to liaise with civic authorities and heads of other churches . |
| 15 | Besides the Shaplands ' daughter , Emily , who was recruited to work in the art department , local schoolchildren were employed as extras and crowds of spectators gathered to watch from a nearby meadow . |
| 16 | One recent star of CCG team was Agnes Boyd , a supervisor who was chosen to feature in ScotRail 's recent advertising campaign , which showed the improvements made in the Scottish rail network — one of them being the catering service . |
| 17 | Dr Dunstaple , in any case , had settled the matter by clearing everyone out of the tiger house except for the unfortunate dispenser , who was ordered to adhere to the Dunstaple treatment until death , if necessary , and to lock the door against everyone else . |
| 18 | For Richard it seems to have been a period of reconciliation : with Sebrand Chabot , who was allowed to return to his see in April 1180 , and with Aimar of Limoges , who arrived back at Christmas of the same year . |
| 19 | The decision arose from the case of Nancy Curzon , who was allowed to die on Dec. 26 after a Missouri court authorized the removal of her feeding tube [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 20 | There he would be met by the doctor and my father , who was allowed to travel with him because he had regularly accompanied the doctor on his evening rounds before the curfew was established . |
| 21 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 22 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 23 | Detectives have been stopping and questioning drivers about the murder of a man who was found stabbed in his garden . |
| 24 | Friends and relatives wept uncontrollably for Helen , 15 , who was found strangled on a path at Horndean , near Portsmouth , six weeks ago . |
| 25 | Eddie Gilfoyle , 32 , has denied the murder of his wife Paula , 32 , who was found hanged at their home in Upton , Wirral . |
| 26 | De Benedetti had been vice-president and a major shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano from November 1981 to January 1982 , before ceding control to Roberto Calvi , who was found hanged in London in April 1982 [ see p. 32083 ] . |
| 27 | Edward Gilfoyle is charged with murdering Paula Gilfoyle , 32 , who was found hanged in the garage of their semi-detached home in Grafton Drive , Upton , on June 4 , last year . |
| 28 | Gilfoyle has denied murdering his wife Paula , 33 , who was found hanged in the garage of their semi- detached home in Upton , Wirral , on June 4 last year . |
| 29 | The 1797 church chronicles lament the demise of one Edward Bunce , a gatekeeper at Coppid Beech Lane turnpike , who was found murdered in the night . |
| 30 | Unlike my father who was told to sit on a bean bag my cardiologist said , " Exercise , build up your strength , " and so I started jogging and disliked it intensely and stopped jogging . |