Example sentences of "[noun] who was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of her as a goddess beyond reproach who was being restrained against her will . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You 're the young lady who was being … |
| 4 | When I was allowed in the child abuse officer was in the chair and he told me that his behaviour was the behaviour of a child who was being sexually abused . |
| 5 | He stood silent and still , watching the tragedy of the Poor Girl who was being rejected by the Rich Man . |
| 6 | The girl who was being tutored out of school , and was , it must be remembered , a very disturbed child , had made a number of allegations to her teacher . |
| 7 | The girl who was being chased by the bloke in the weird headgear . |
| 8 | ‘ The next point taken by Mr. O'Connor ’ — for the lessee who was being sued — ‘ was that in any event there was a compromise before the county court judge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Miss Barber added : ‘ Paula said the wife who was being left behind is going to feel guilty for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 11 | Miss Barber added : ‘ Paula said the wife who was being left behind is going to feel guilty for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He repaired to his kitchen area , flagrantly disregarding the woman who was being sick three rows behind the two men . |
| 16 | Boyle cited a recent example of an elderly woman who was being physically abused . |
| 17 | Yes at the moment another time I was n't going to buy anything from Chile , and er I was asking the young man who was is this from Chile , oh I do n't want them . |
| 18 | Jackson sat there like an important man who was being kept from an engagement by a nuisance . |
| 19 | A man who was being questioned by police following the death of a footballer , has now been released on bail . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then he remembered that it was Volkov who was being unfaithful . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Daffodil , beside him , was opposite Bambi who was being coolly gracious . |
| 24 | A Home Office enquiry is underway tonight into an escape attempt by a prisoner who was being moved between jails . |
| 25 | In a separate incident , a prisoner who was being moved , broke free and vandalised furniture . |
| 26 | Then this morning a prisoner who was being moved , broke free and damaged furniture and fittings . |
| 27 | Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads ? |
| 28 | The offender held his pistol to the head of a customer who was being served and demanded that the assistants filled two bags with cash ; when one of them hesitated he pulled back the breech of the gun and threatened to shoot the customer . |
| 29 | He was said in the article to be a campaigner in Preston who was being paid by local Tory politicians to investigate Oyston . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ Geoff helped out a younger Palace squad member who was being hit . |