Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Sheffield football disaster , within a week we heard accusations against the police , against the clubs , against the fans themselves who were accused of being drunk and causing trouble . |
| 2 | I refer to the case of Mustapha Akkawi , who was killed after being tortured in prison just over a week ago . |
| 3 | Peter Barron , 19 , of Lancefield Avenue , Newcastle , was remanded in custody for five days by city magistrates yesterday charged with attempting to murder PC Keith Richardson , who was stabbed after being called to a house burglary . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What could you say to a person who was possessed since being possessed was a mystery ? |
| 6 | Police also arrested Francis Minnah , then First Vice-President , who was accused of being behind the coup attempt . |
| 7 | In 796 Charlemagne was giving shelter to an important exile from England , the priest Odberht , almost certainly to be identified with the Eadberht Praen who was accused of being an ex-priest and who subsequently seized the Kentish kingdom at some point after the death of Offa . |
| 8 | Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring . |