Example sentences of "who was [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes Eddie Browning , who was jailed for the murder of Marie Wilkes , and Michael Shirley who 's on hunger strike protesting his innocence … |
| 2 | The court had heard that Chalmers , who was training for the ministry with the Rev Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , had lured the boy into a church in South Belfast and abused him . |
| 3 | A verdict was given against a Liverpool Constable by a jury … in a case in which Mrs Jane Roche , wife of a bookmaker , claimed damages from Sergt. John Borrows ( who was dismissed for the malicious prosecution claim ) and Constable Ernest David Laurie of the Liverpool Police … |
| 4 | Menachem Begin the leader of Irgun , who was wanted for the murders of sergeants Martin and Paice ( see Daily Express ) went on in time to become the Prime Minister of the Zionist State of Israel . |
| 5 | Susanne Albrecht , who was wanted for the 1977 murder of the banker Jürgen Ponto , and Inge Viett , wanted for the 1974 murder of the judge Günter von Drenkmann , were arrested on June 6 in East Berlin , and on June 14 Werner Lotze , Monika Helbing , Ekkehard von Seckendorff-Gudent and Christine Dümlein ( all wanted in connection with other attacks ) were also held , as was Sigrid Sternebeck on June 15 . |
| 6 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 7 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 8 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 9 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 10 | David Bowden of Complins , Holybourne , who was running for the Multiple Sclerosis Society , recorded a rather faster time of two hours 56 minutes — but he was running in his seventh marathon . |
| 11 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 12 | He is accused of wounding David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , Liverpool , who was playing for the Oxton-based Queens Arms team . |
| 13 | John Newton , 25 , a chemist of New Hey Road , Woodchurch , Birkenhead , has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , who was playing for the Queens Arms team from Oxton . |
| 14 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 15 | Sir Patrick Hastings , who was briefed for the defence of Mosley and the others , had little difficulty in demolishing the prosecution case . |
| 16 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 17 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 18 | But Ward was stretchered off with a broken leg after a challenge by Mark Atkins , who was booked for the tackle . |
| 19 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 20 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
| 21 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |