Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 2 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 3 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 4 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 5 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 6 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 7 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 8 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 9 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 10 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 11 | Midfielder Scott Sellars was sold to Blackburn for £35,000 and was bought back in the summer for £750,000 . |
| 12 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 13 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 14 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 15 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 16 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |