Example sentences of "was [verb] and [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No warning was given and police say they face an impossible task in fighting this kind of terrorism . |
| 2 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 3 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 4 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 5 | It 's more than two months since Jim Eggleton was murdered and police say they 're still no closer to solving the case . |