Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [coord] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much , however , already had and was to happen behind the scenes . |
| 2 | The rushing sound of the water finally subsided and was taken over by the hiss of the cistern refilling . |
| 3 | Mr Stone , when leaving the premises by a narrow , unlit staircase at approximately 1.00a.m. fell and was killed . |
| 4 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 5 | That political crisis both drove and was driven by the economic crisis : but again and again it emerged that the key lay in politics . |
| 6 | It later declined but was revived about 1770 being still later greatly strengthened by Mr John Malcolmson and Mr Joseph Malcolmson , founder in 1789 of the Bluestone Sunday School , the first in Ulster and the second in Ireland . |
| 7 | Maybe the ‘ shadow ’ was a Mordor-spell , maybe Balin simultaneously fell and was pushed . |
| 8 | Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom . |
| 9 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |
| 10 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |
| 11 | He wrote that there were well-to-do and respectable men in each district who either planned or were informed of all cattle stealing in their localities . |
| 12 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the independence of the mass media elsewhere has declined : newspapers which had formerly been privately owned either disappeared or were taken over in , among other places , Ghana , Ivory Coast , Zambia , Cameroon and Malawi . |
| 14 | In over 35 countries police and military officers , either in uniform or working in death squads , gunned down government critics ; in over 20 countries opponents either disappeared or were held incommunicado . |
| 15 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 16 | And she neither volunteered nor was asked for any new statement of intent about how soon the British would agree to sterling joining the fixed exchange rate regime of the European Monetary System . |
| 17 | Long believed lost , the plates recently surfaced and were acquired by the Tate Gallery . |
| 18 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 19 | RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats . |