Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 2 | It shows a street child who was beaten by four Guatemalan police officers in 1990 and later died of his injuries . |
| 3 | The patient was Bryan Ahlers , an eight day-old boy from New York , who was born with severe physical problems . |
| 4 | Some convicted men went over the wall and the judge , who was born in that very prison , called for an improvement in security at the prison . |
| 5 | The Bloc was founded by Lucien Bouchard , the former Environment Minister who resigned from the federal government in May 1990 [ see p. 37519 ] , who was joined by six other defectors from the PCP and the Liberals . |
| 6 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |
| 7 | As his diocese included the Isle of Wright , The Rev. Pearce would often have occasion to hold signed conversations with Queen Victoria who was acquainted with some deaf people near her favourite retreat at Osborne . |
| 8 | It was the crying of a person who was hurt by some deep sadness . |