Example sentences of "and [Wh pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1907 , Ernest Fryer , the co-opted non-bondholder ( although he acquired bonds several years later ) , and who was managing the course development , went to Walton Heath , ( James Braid 's club ) , to hasten the laying out of the bunkers . |
| 2 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 3 | She was looking , not at a twenty-one-year-old girl , a young and beautiful twenty-one-year-old girl , but a twenty-one-year-old girl that could be taken for thirty , and who was drinking a mixture of brandy and port to ease the strain of her life . |
| 4 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |
| 5 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 6 | Nine members of the outgoing government lost their parliamentary seats , including one with Cabinet rank , the Conservative party chairman Chris Patten , who lost to the Liberal Democrat candidate in Bath ( and who was appointed on April 24 as Governor of Hong Kong — see p. 38862 ) . |
| 7 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The trustees from time to time remitted to the mother of the children , who was their guardian and who was residing with them in England , sums of money in accordance with the provision of the will for the maintenance and education of the children . |
| 10 | He may be the Henry Wilde who was the son of Horatio Wilde and his wife Hannah , and who was christened 17 February 1833 . |
| 11 | Although he had merely played with the idea , he had thought about murder this morning and who was to say that given propitious circumstances and the required degree of desperation , he might not indeed … murder ? |
| 12 | You were as indistinguishable from a distance as one of these blades of grass , and who was to say more important ? |
| 13 | The case described here illustrates brief counselling with a young man who had recently lost his job , and who was experiencing family and other problems . |
| 14 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 15 | Moreover , his tale might be a wild distortion of the fate of the Norwegian Eric Bloodaxe , whose father was called Harald , and who was killed just after being expelled from his Northumbrian kingdom in 954 . |
| 16 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 17 | He was a fine writer , essayist and philosopher who wrote The Tragic Sense of Life and who was persecuted by Franco and put under house arrest by Primo de Rivera because of his liberal views expressed fearlessly while he was the Rector of the University . |
| 18 | Amongst them were Henry Care ( a Presbyterian , and author of the Exclusionist periodical , the Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome ) , who became James 's chief propagandist in promoting the cause of religious toleration , and Sir William Williams , who became James 's solicitor-general ( and who was to lead the prosecution of the seven bishops in 1688 ) . |
| 19 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |
| 20 | Six months of research went into the changes and Trevor emerged as a person who was respected , carried weight and authority and who was liked and trusted . |
| 21 | A further image is that caring is a predominantly female experience ; a typical caricature of a ‘ carer ’ would be that of a married middle-aged woman whose children had grown up and who was looking to re-enter the labour market . |
| 22 | This is made clear from the start by the tale which Beatrice tells Catherine of a boy who betrayed his uncle — illegally hidden in his family 's house — and who was dragged by his feet down flights of stairs and spat on in the street by his father and brothers as a result . |
| 23 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 24 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 25 | It was probably he , not a namesake , who was a follower of John Giffard [ q.v. ] in the civil wars of the late 1260s , and who was rewarded for his loyalty to the Crown with a grant of land in Northamptonshire . |
| 26 | The archetype of faith is Abraham , who went out at God 's command though he did not know where he was going , and who was prepared at that command even to sacrifice his own son . |
| 27 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 28 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
| 29 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 30 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |