Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
2 | PIPPA Steffell , aged one , who got her foot caught in the gap of a Sainsbury trolley while sitting in the seat . |
3 | What about that young foreman who got his wrist broken ? ’ |
4 | Remote Sensing Inc. was founded in Feb 1969 by Bobby Hile an electronic physicist , who used his experience gained with NASA to pioneer the commercial us of airborne space technology . |
5 | JORDANIAN hoteliers who saw their business decimated by the Gulf War are now suffering the ultimate irony of relying on Iraqi visitors to bolster their flagging industry . |
6 | For weeks his local paper the Westmorland Gazette was full of outraged letters from Sedbergh businessmen who saw their profits threatened by Harding 's opposition to the golf course . |
7 | She was followed by Meredith who wore his monocle threaded on a silver chain . |
8 | One was a 50-year-old woman sitting on a shooting stick who had her spleen ruptured when the bird hit her in the back ; the other was the pregnant wife of Swiss businessman Luc Argand , who was knocked off a wall at the Floors Castle estate near Kelso in the Scottish Borders . |
9 | Thieves made off with the loan car of a woman who had her vehicle stolen . |
10 | Magistrates used the in loco parentis provision of the Criminal Justice Act to impel the authority to compensate the 78-year-old woman who had her bag snatched by the youth . |
11 | And Hilda will be the poor little wifey at home who had her husband snatched from her . |
12 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
13 | The special project teacher , who had her car burned out in January , had a window smashed while canvassing in East Middlesbrough . |
14 | The special project teacher , who had her car burned out in January , had a window smashed while canvassing in East Middlesbrough . |
15 | Santa Lucia , the virgin saint who had her eyes put out , is traditionally invoked against blindness . |
16 | My hon. Friend says that cash is available which could be used at least to make some payment to doctors who had their payments limited by the list size criterion . |
17 | If that is true , it would be a great relief to the indigenous black population of South Africa , who had their country appropriated by foreigners who then proceeded to deny them basic human rights . |
18 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
19 | Those who had their immunity waived were all noted parliamentary figures : Carlo Tognoli ( PSI ) , the Minister of Tourism in the previous government , two other PSI members Paolo Pillitteri and Renato Massari , Antonio Del Pennino from the Italian Republican Party and Gianni Cervetti from the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS , formerly the Communist Party of Italy ) . |
20 | The Unwins who had their photographs taken each side of their panting winner , now covered across the shoulders by a long , triumphant blanket of flowers . |
21 | If you are among the many pensioners who had their pension deferred ( in other words you put off receiving it ) as a means of escaping the earnings Rule , you have the choice whether to start claiming your pension or to continue deferment . |
22 | One sentry almost drowned on his feet , for the wind had pinned him against a rock , and he could not free himself or even turn his face into shelter , while it dashed into his mouth and nostrils unceasing volleys of rain so heavy that he could not get his breath ; and if two of his companions who had their backs turned upon the blast had not been cast against him , and so afforded his face shelter enough to breathe , he must have died spread-eagled there . |
23 | It was me who had my neck broken and me who is still suffering . |
24 | Estabrook glanced across at Chant , who had his gaze fixed on their destination , and his teeth clenched . |
25 | EDDIE NEWTON , the rising Chelsea star who had his jaw smashed in a racist attack just six months ago , is determined to break Manchester United hearts at Stamford Bridge today . |
26 | I FEEL sorry for the parents of the little boy who had his face ripped open by an alsatian . |
27 | He cuts an enigmatic and sympathetic figure : a recluse who would go around his palace incognito dressed as a groom ; a man who had his future foretold by Nostradamus ; who employed the English occultists , Dee and Kelley ; who dabbled in magic and yet was one of the greatest patrons of the Renaissance in Europe . |
28 | Who had his eyes closed in an expressionless face but was still present , in his chair . |
29 | ‘ It 's sad , ’ said Nick , who had his eyes removed to stop cancer of the retina spreading to the rest of his body . |
30 | I had my first client within days , an old lady who wanted her ceiling painted and the walls papered . |