Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 2 | A car driven by Shaun Gooch crashed into a group of young people , who 'd gathered by a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 3 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 4 | Then there was a big cheer from the 18th and we thought it was Nicklaus who 'd holed for a birdie . |
| 5 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 6 | By the pool at Château Kitsch , which was as blue as Enid Coley 's hostess gown , Trace , who 'd changed into a slinky black dress , was having a row with Randy Sherwood . |
| 7 | I know a 51-year-old women who 'd embarked on a passionate affair with a 55-year-old , but was terrified of spending the night with him . |
| 8 | Meetings were arranged , outings were planned and tempting offers were put to a woman who felt neglected by a husband whose naval duties seemed to be more important to him that his wife . |
| 9 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 10 | There was Abdullah Ali , a businessman in exile , who was known to Rashid , and who had eaten in a restaurant in London with men he believed to be his friends , who had died in St Stephen 's Hospital of a rat poison that had been sprinkled on his food during a moment of inattention . |
| 11 | Jonathan Swift , despite his attitude toward Stephen Duck , had already taken an interest in Constantia Grierson who had trained as a midwife . |
| 12 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 13 | Sarah was the daughter of my mother 's eldest sister , Janet , who had trained as a doctor and was married to a psychoanalyst . |
| 14 | In July the authorities arrested two leading opponents of the government , Charles Rubia and Kenneth Matiba , who had called for a referendum on the future of one-party rule ; in subsequent protest riots 20 people died [ see p. 37603 ] . |
| 15 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 16 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |
| 17 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 18 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 19 | The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures . |
| 20 | The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 22 | One morning during coffee-break , Rachel found Nina and Louise apparently discussing David , who had gone to a meeting . |
| 23 | It could only be someone who had gone for a marathon walk or a solitary picnicker who had lain down and fallen asleep . |
| 24 | The new Resident Representative in the USA , Juan Babauta , a Republican , took over the post from a Democrat , Froilan C. Tenario , a strong nationalist who had stood as a candidate for the governorship . |
| 25 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 26 | In the Nineties , it goes without saying , it was another England — de-industrialized , post-industrial , an England whose representatives were , by and large , strangers to the dingy side-streets and the scurrying wind — who had gathered under a rotunda at the National Portrait Gallery to watch a portrait of one of the heroes of ‘ 66 and many people 's idea of the Greatest Living Englishman , Bobby Charlton , being unveiled . |
| 27 | One highly motivated recruit Stirling did manage to persuade to join him was Fitzroy Maclean , who had served as a diplomat in Russia before the war . |
| 28 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 29 | , William Miller ( 1885–1974 ) , historian , was born in Aberdeen 1 October 1885 , the youngest child in the family of three sons and four daughters of the Revd John Macmillan , Scottish Free Church minister and schoolmaster , who had served as a missionary in India , and his wife Elizabeth Caid Lindsay . |
| 30 | In the past Jeffries , who had served as a consultant to the New York state Department of Education during its efforts to revise the high school syllabus , had attracted controversy by asserting that blacks — " sun people " — were genetically superior to whites — " ice people " — because of the greater quantity of the pigment melanin to be found in blacks . |