Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 2 | Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes : |
| 3 | Cardiff will be without their international hooker Ian Watkins , who was sent off in the game with Pontypridd on Boxing Day , and also the Lions three-quarter Mike Hall whose former club Bridgend have not yet granted him a transfer . |
| 4 | two more winners to finish off with … longjumper Carl Howard from Oxford took the national under 20 title again … his winning leap 7 point five two metres and … weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from the Olympics last year after a mix up over drugs was a winner again in the British Senior Championships at Crystal Palace … |
| 5 | A weightlifter who was sent home from the Barcelona Olympics after failing a drugs test WILL be allowed to compete in the next games . |
| 6 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 7 | After the service , Tim was buried on a windswept hillside just 25 yards from the resting place of Johnathan , who was killed outright by the blast 12 days ago . |
| 8 | The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains . |
| 9 | He sent a lad along who was limping badly from the ulcers between his toes caused by an infestation of the chigoes : Ariel tended him . |
| 10 | A person who was swept along by the crowd ( in a literal bodily sense ) , or who encountered unexpected barriers when attempting to comply with police conditions , would be able to avail himself of this defence . |
| 11 | We , have I told you about the policeman who was fixed permanently at the ? |
| 12 | ENGLAND manager Keith Fletcher made a wasted trip to Basingstoke yesterday to watch Hampshire 's David Gower who was ruled out of the championship match against Kent by a cracked rib . |
| 13 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
| 14 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 15 | " There 's been a death in his family , " Tom said to the barman who was looking curiously at the pale , wide-eyed young man . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see what 's so funny , ’ said Robert , who was looking nervously down the street . |
| 17 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 18 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 19 | By the time of the conference the CDU in the east was led by western politicians in Brandenburg ( by Ulf Fink ) , Saxony-Anhalt ( by Werner Münch ) and in Saxony ( by Minister President Kurt Biedenkopf , who was elected earlier in the month ) . |
| 20 | Now she jabbed the toe of her smart Italian shoe in the dog , who was snuffling about under the table . |
| 21 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
| 22 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 23 | Once she came to Mansfield Street with the King , and stayed over four hours , arranging and playing with everything , much to the chagrin of a lady in waiting who was kept firmly outside the drawing room ! |
| 24 | Support will come from another useful acquisition in Joey Benjamin , 31 , who was kept out of the Warwickshire side last year after impressing in 1990 with 34 wickets at 30 . |
| 25 | New Hartlepool MP Peter Mandelson claims the case of Natalie Readman , five , who was turned away from the town 's general hospital due to a shortage of beds , proves that the quality of local health services is being eroded by the government 's NHS reforms . |
| 26 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 27 | Welshman Gibbs , who was stretchered off near the end of an ill-tempered match with bruised ankle ligaments , will be out of action for at least 10 days . |
| 28 | Barry Butler , who was stretchered off in the 2-1 Deva Stadium win over Brighton , yesterday had Xrays on his injured ankle . |
| 29 | Margaret Leslie , who was wandering restlessly round the room , picked up a script from a table . |
| 30 | And erm my father and another lad who was working out in the had to go Called Michael , had to go down every evening to pump water for the the animal . |