Example sentences of "[noun prp] and were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Later we were told there had been an incident at the Hilton and were asked to move all our guests away from the windows . ’ |
| 2 | David and were agreeing last night how much they like the road . |
| 3 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 4 | The Company made a 60-mile withdrawal to the beach at Betano and were picked up with Portuguese and Dutch civilians evacuated at the same time , the relief ships being bombed during their approach for this night landing . |
| 5 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 6 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 7 | The de la Porte family owned several properties in Picardy and were related by marriage to the noblest and richest families in the area . |
| 8 | The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend . |
| 9 | The deaths of only eighty-one men of Hampshire at the battle of Æthelingadene in 1001 does not suggest fighting on a large scale , and it is noticeable that the same raiders shortly afterwards attacked Exeter and were repulsed . |
| 10 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 11 | To settle in America they were forced to sign documents stating that they had been persecuted in Russia and were seeking political asylum . |
| 12 | Soviet troop withdrawals began on 15 May and were completed on schedule on 15 February 1989 ; Shevardnadze , addressing the Supreme Soviet the following October , described the original decision to intervene as a violation of ‘ general human values ’ and of party and state procedures . |
| 13 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 14 | The Minister of Industry , Commerce and Integration , Jacinto Jouvin , and of Finance and Public Credit , Jorge Gallardo , resigned in early January and were replaced respectively by Pablo Better and Juan Falconi . |
| 15 | Debbie Avis and a representative from the Amro Bank attended a lavish function at the Guildhall and were presented to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress . |
| 16 | Susan and David doted on Christopher and were getting ready to really spoil him this Christmas . |
| 17 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 18 | Ours was glancingly Tudorbethan and called ‘ The Oaks ’ ; others had clearly been inspired by visits to Spain and were called ‘ Casa-something-or-other ’ ; one or two bore hints of castellation and crenellation and were appropriately named after some of the statelier English homes ; while Syl 's house had been conceived in a dour Regency style by a less fertile imagination and its grey dressed stones were covered by a great pelt of ivy . |
| 19 | The French government airlifted 450 troops to reinforce its 1,100 strong Chad garrison on Jan. 3 after armed rebels advancing from across the Nigerian border into the eastern Lake Chad region had captured the towns of Liwa and Bol and were reported to be threatening the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 20 | Like the locos and the rolling stock , the best plastic building kits — Arnolds and Heljans and Rikos — all came from West Germany and were based on West German orig-inals . |
| 21 | Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces had breached Gorazde 's defence lines in hand-to-hand fighting at the villages of Borovac and Gornja Glavica and were advancing on the town 's outskirts . |
| 22 | Eventually the Avars did homage to Charles ; their tuduns or chieftains came to Aachen and were baptised . |
| 23 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 24 | India were always struggling after a tight opening blast by Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers and were bowled out for 177 . |
| 25 | The first official confirmation of the offensive was a statement by Defence Minister Paul Tohian , broadcast on Oct. 22 , which said that army units were within 2 km of Arawa and were continuing their drive southwards . |
| 26 | ‘ I am sorry , ’ he muttered ‘ We were returning from Woodstock and were chased by war dogs . ’ |
| 27 | Once again we received a warm welcome at Cresswell and were treated to coffee and some rather nice chocky biscuits in the Board Room . |
| 28 | They had negotiated the roundabout for Lutterworth and the A427 to Coventry and were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward 's attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail . |
| 29 | They had reached the end of Patrick Street and were turning into Grand Parade . |
| 30 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |