Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |
| 2 | The final list is of capped players who were sounded out about availability and , for various reasons , have asked not to be considered . |
| 3 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 4 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |
| 5 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 6 | Patients who were operated on between midnight and 6 am also had an increased rate of unnecessary operations ( 39/125 , 31% ) . |
| 7 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 8 | The sloppiness of such thinking-by-pun affected many of the leading molecular biologists and immunologists of the period ( two who were swept up in this early enthusiasm but stayed on to become wiser neurobiological theorists were Gerald Edelman and Francis Crick ) . |
| 9 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 10 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 11 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 12 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 13 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 14 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 15 | The issue was solved , not by due legal process , but by a brawl between the colonists and the village lads , who were chased back into the Soviet building which was later smashed up . |
| 16 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 17 | After the ceremony of the Wheel there was a firework display and people bought chips and hot-dogs from traders with vans who were cashing in on the occasion . |
| 18 | The all-conquering Abbagnales — twice Olympic victors with a combined age of 63 — had no answer to the explosive finishing power of the Searles , combined age 43 , who were goaded on by cox Garry Herbert . |
| 19 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 20 | Ceaseless rain made further progress impossible , not merely for the infantry , who were sinking up to their thighs in mud , but for the tanks held in readiness to exploit a breakthrough . |
| 21 | Some were descended from refugees who had fled before the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century ; others had forebears who were led out by the Patriarch Arsenije of Peć in a mass migration of an estimated 100,000 Serbs in 1691 . |
| 22 | Menopausal state , pregnancy , and oestrogen containing drugs — Because of the possible influence of menopausal state , pregnancy and oestrogen containing drugs , details about these factors were sought by questionnaire in the 65 women who were followed up for more than six months . |
| 23 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 24 | On Oct. 25 , the USSR Supreme Soviet appealed to republics who were holding back from signing the economic community treaty , saying that " the chaotic disintegration of the republics of the former union may further destabilize the situation and exacerbate interrepublican relations " . |
| 25 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 26 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 27 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 28 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 29 | And Diana Travers , after drinking and eating unwisely , had apparently herself dived into the Thames to swim out to her companions who were messing about in a punt . |
| 30 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |