Example sentences of "and [pron] was [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 2 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 3 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 4 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 5 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 6 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 7 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 8 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 9 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 10 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 11 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 12 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 13 | There were other alleged cases when guards were playing scrabble instead of going on patrol and one was said to be unfit for work through drink . |
| 14 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 15 | The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation . |
| 16 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 17 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 18 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 19 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 20 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 21 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 22 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 23 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 24 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 25 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |
| 26 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 27 | This investigation indicated that , although the potential existed for use of such systems by the departments , at that time the costs were high and there was a general lack of standards and a limited amount of expertise available , and it was felt to be unwise to consider any major capital investment . |
| 28 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |
| 29 | This stretch of canal holds a large head of fish but there are also a lot of carp and it was decided to be an unfair venue . |
| 30 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |