Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 11 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 12 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 13 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 14 | He was laid to rest alongside his son , Arthur , jun , who was shot to death ; his daughter Margaret , who died in mysterious circumstances ; and his mother-in-law Maggie Harrison , who was blown up in a car-bomb attack almost certainly intended to kill Thompson himself . |
| 15 | Now she jabbed the toe of her smart Italian shoe in the dog , who was snuffling about under the table . |
| 16 | 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 " ) . |
| 17 | ‘ He tackled a player who was getting up after a challenge from someone else — on the touchline . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Barry Butler , who was stretchered off in the 2-1 Deva Stadium win over Brighton , yesterday had Xrays on his injured ankle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I keep wondering , ’ said Clarissa , ‘ whether that woman who was pulled out of the canal could be anything to do with Barbs . |
| 25 | and there was one baby who was climbing out of the cot . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 27 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 28 | The Collector nodded to Ford who was standing by with the portfire . |
| 29 | She was nowhere near the height of Anna Beckett either , who was shooting up like a sapling . |
| 30 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |