Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HORROR CRASH CULPRIT WHO DROVE WHILE BANNED IS JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS |
| 2 | We sent this letter to the authors of the manual , who replied as follows . |
| 3 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 4 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 5 | The war did not prove particularly popular with the English nobility , who served when called upon to do so but gained little from it . |
| 6 | A post mortem examination on an Oxford University student , who collapsed while training for next month 's boat race , has revealed he died fron natural causes . |
| 7 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 8 | The best shows in London had girls who worked as showgirls . |
| 9 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 10 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
| 11 | I expect you read about the girl who disappeared while staying in his villa in Rhodes . |
| 12 | " In memory of Ian David Plant " , a plaque reads above the pothole , " a fine caver who died while diving Bull Pot of the Witches , 14 October 1985 " . |
| 13 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 14 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 15 | This agrees with the estimates arrived at by Townsend who concluded as follows : |