Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 2 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 3 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
| 4 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 5 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 6 | Twenty youths were killed running to help two people who had been crushed by armoured vehicles on Student Square , said the agency . |
| 7 | His doubts about the nature and value of contemporary society were frequently expressed also in the Criterion ; in the issue of October 1935 , for example , he had talked about the plight of Papuan natives who had been corrupted by Western civilization . |
| 8 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 9 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 10 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 11 | Examples include a member who was in partnership with an individual who had a criminal conviction for fraud ; four members who had been charged with criminal offences ; a bankrupt ; and a member who had been disqualified as a company director . |
| 12 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 13 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 14 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 15 | The stone free interval was greater , however , in patients whose primary gall stones had been dissolved with chenodeyxholic acid ( median 14 : range 1–80 months ) than in those who had been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid ( median 4 : 1–24 ) . |
| 16 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 17 | SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample . |
| 18 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 19 | There had been a meeting in a student dormitory , for instance , with a retired colonel , who had been asked about political repression in the armed forces . |
| 20 | Davies , who had been jailed for similar offences eight years ago , will be sentenced next month . |
| 21 | The Swedish government sought the extradition of the applicant to face trial for drug trafficking offences in respect of which P. , an alleged accomplice who had been convicted of similar offences , had made a statement to the Swedish court implicating the applicant . |
| 22 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 23 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 24 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 25 | Other politicians who had been investigated for alleged collaboration with the Soviet KGB included deputy Virgilius Cepaitis [ ibid . ] . |
| 26 | The figure included almost 1,000,000 overseas federal workers , including military personnel and their dependents , who had been excluded from previous censuses . |
| 27 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 28 | Vananu , who had been held in solitary confinement since 1986 , was in March 1988 given an 18-year prison sentence for passing information likely to harm state security , after he had offered a United Kingdom newspaper information about Israel 's nuclear programme [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 29 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 30 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |