Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] in a " in BNC.

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1 In contrast to the melodramatic historical memoirs there is a poignant moment when Suwelo faces the memory of his parents , who were killed in a car accident .
2 INQUESTS were opened and adjourned yesterday into the deaths of an elderly woman and her daughter who were killed in a car crash .
3 33 of Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , were Christian youths who were immured in a cave by the persecuting Emperor Decius ( 250 AD ) .
4 There were thirteen members present , in the chair apology er apologies from Joe and Emily and Robert who were injured in a car crash on the way here .
5 When he visited the Russian sculptor Archipenko and his wife , who were living in a villa in Nice , Modi grumbled of the women who bossed him around .
6 Three men have gone on trial for the killing of twin sisters who were trapped in a blazing barn .
7 Cleveland firemen were called to British Steel 's blast furnace site at Redcar to release four men who were trapped in a lift which had broken down .
8 The relationship between industrial and urban development in this period was more complex than simply being a matter of industrial development attracting workers who were housed in a uniform fashion .
9 Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly .
10 At that time , there were 22 women political prisoners who were held in a separate block from the common prisoners , but the number expanded very rapidly :
11 Oh , the people who were sleeping in a bed and who tomorrow , reading their newspaper , would say joyously — ‘ they are still holding ! ’
12 The only real Italian resistance had come from the 370 officer pupils of the School of Infantry , who were stationed in a building in the Giardino Pubblico .
13 ( In the 1992 election it hardly got beyond a slanging match over who had identified the young patient awaiting treatment for glue ear who was featured in a Labour election broadcast . )
14 But the Prince has always enjoyed flirting with danger , like his cousin , Prince William of Gloucester , who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 .
15 GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December .
16 Despite a £2,700 legacy from her mother , who was killed in a car crash , she was determined not to waste it .
17 TV heart-throb Jason Priestly is haunted by the death of a close pal who was killed in a drink-driving accident .
18 For it 's the funeral today of stablegirl Caroline Peat , the horse 's regular rider , who was killed in a motor accident last week .
19 The experience of landscape in its physical , visual and spiritual dimensions was the obsessive passion of Cornish artist Peter Lanyon , who was killed in a gliding accident in 1964 at the age of 46 .
20 In 1905 Sabatini married Ruth Goad Dixon ; they had a son who was killed in a car accident in 1927 .
21 The official launch in Dungannon was tinged with sadness , however , when a silent tribute was paid to tragic Sinead Murphy , the 1991 Ulster Rose , who was killed in a car crash last week .
22 Moi went to particular lengths to pay tribute to Alexander Muge , Bishop of Eldoret , a long-standing critic of the government who was killed in a car crash in August [ see p. 37645 ] .
23 The first victim of violence following the establishing of the HCS was a soldier who was killed in a sub-machine-gun attack on a checkpoint at Sidi Moussa , 40 km south of Algiers on Jan. 19 .
24 ‘ He 's called Ricky — after my brother who was killed in a road accident when he was three . ’
25 Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car .
26 An inquest was opened and adjourned yesterday on Mini driver Kay Lynch , 32 , who was killed in a crash in Low Lane , Stainton , near Middlesbrough on Wednesday .
27 He had wandered away from his mother Denise , who was queuing in a butcher 's shop .
28 This savage day , and he thought , inexplicably , for it was a long time ago — he had thought to have forgotten it — of a boy who was swallowed in a sewer .
29 About 100 students from Zimbabwe University carried placards denouncing Dr Richard Gladwell McGown who was charged in a Harare court last week in connection with experiments in pain control which authorities say killed five patients .
30 Leon Kennedy pointed a questioning finger between himself and Rosen , who was paralysed in a protective lunge between his and Delia Sutherland 's chair .
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