Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course one evening gown and one day dress soon proved to be a woefully insufficient wardrobe for someone who was being escorted around Boston as much as Ellie now was . |
| 2 | As the song was ending , Christina raised her head from his shoulder where she had rested it while they danced — and found herself looking straight into the hard , intimidating gaze of Jean Reece-Carlton , who was being escorted around the floor by a martyred-looking Robert Leyton . |
| 3 | A Home Office enquiry is underway tonight into an escape attempt by a prisoner who was being moved between jails . |
| 4 | Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads ? |
| 5 | ‘ The poor woman , ’ Lady Amelia had told him , ‘ could do nothing to save Dame Frances , who was being consumed by a sheet of fire . |
| 6 | Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later . |
| 7 | He stood silent and still , watching the tragedy of the Poor Girl who was being rejected by the Rich Man . |
| 8 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |
| 9 | A man who was being questioned by police following the death of a footballer , has now been released on bail . |
| 10 | THE 12-year-old boy who was being questioned in connection with the murder of two-year-old James Bulger was released from custody and eliminated from police inquiries last night . |
| 11 | The full force of being public property and pop royalty had not hit him — whereas Beatty , who was being chased by the news hounds from New York to Florida to the South of France , with Natalie in tow , had suddenly become the talk of the town . |
| 12 | The girl who was being chased by the bloke in the weird headgear . |
| 13 | Jackson sat there like an important man who was being kept from an engagement by a nuisance . |
| 14 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 15 | Here , however , the vibrancer taking the part of Smoobillow held Paradouze , who was being played by a girl , close against his body , shaping the young limbs into the correct movements . |
| 16 | The third victim , Brian Frizzell ( 29 ) , was shot dead after trying to help a third young girl , who was being dragged along the pavement by her hair by a gunman . |
| 17 | The youth , who was being cared for by Gloucestershire Social Services Department , was sent on a safari trip to Africa . |
| 18 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 19 | Instead , she was allowed to dominate the play , instead of Ken , or instead of Michael Bryant , around whom the action took place , the character who was being pulled in all directions . |
| 20 | Nagdi , who was being driven to the offices of the Iranian National Resistance Council , was shot twice in the face . |
| 21 | At that time Clare , who was a British Horse Society riding instructor , was teaching freelance , and she heard of a 15hh palomino called Herbie who was being offered on loan . |
| 22 | He was said in the article to be a campaigner in Preston who was being paid by local Tory politicians to investigate Oyston . |
| 23 | ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 24 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 25 | He talked of her as a goddess beyond reproach who was being restrained against her will . |
| 26 | Tilda had lost interest in what was being said and had gone to fetch Stripey , who was being pursued across Maurice by a rat . |
| 27 | The generic and common names of mint are said to be taken from the Greek myth of the nymph Minthe , who was being pursued by Hades , the god of the Underworld . |
| 28 | It also emerged that a $400,000 donation , the largest made at the dinner , was from Michael Kojima , a heavily indebted businessman who was being pursued by numerous creditors . |
| 29 | During investigations in November into the affairs of the collapsed Lincoln thrift in Irvine , California [ see also below ] , it emerged that Charles Keating , an Arizona land developer who had bought the company in 1984 , and who was being sued by the federal government for bank fraud and racketeering , had enlisted the help of five senators when the San Francisco Home Loan Bank began to investigate in 1986 . |
| 30 | Indeed , in his first reading of the letter Gentle had n't even realized it was Pie'oh'pah who was being spoken of in this passage . |