Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [coord] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embalming procedures were explained and illustrated and he went on to show examples of vascular preservation and plastination of body parts and sections . |
| 2 | New samples were carried and added to the display , labels were checked and ironed and the large Triple Tombola given the ‘ Super Dazzle ’ treatment . |
| 3 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 4 | The movements were fumbling and searching and somehow groping . |
| 5 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 6 | Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move . |
| 7 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 8 | I heard the Roker Roar and it all came back to me people were cheering and singing and happy . ’ |
| 9 | This suggests that only relatively severe cases of endometriosis were diagnosed or reported and that the actual incidence in this population might be greater . |
| 10 | They were laughing and talking and putting black square things to their faces , pointing them at the eagles , and clicking them . |
| 11 | Adolf Hitler 's ruthless occupation policy across Europe and the discovery of the concentration camps ensured that Germans were loathed and hated and the destruction they suffered was seen as deserved . |
| 12 | When the war came the stationery was moved out and obscure intelligence projects were pursued and filed and forgotten in these rooms . |
| 13 | At Bewick she would not have dreamed of sitting by a fire in idleness while her clothes were sorted and shaken and put away in drawers and cupboards , which , when opened , gave out breaths of lavender . |
| 14 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 15 | All these images were twisted and changed and combined by the creative process of Coleridge 's mind into the superb poem . |
| 16 | Bronze and silver items were manufactured or acquired and eventually buried , along with considerable quantities of other material , as grave-goods in the community 's cemetery ( Figure 2. 1 ) . |
| 17 | Then they were among them , milling about the horses , and the terrified animals were bucking and screaming and it was all Riven could do to stay mounted . |
| 18 | Her sweaters had necks that were sewn and cut and Pauline included the following instructions for adding a fully fashioned band as a neat finish by her easy method that avoids having to backstitch through open loops . |
| 19 | Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid . |
| 20 | Since morning he had been in and out of the kitchen where Maggie and Mona were cleaning and tidying and preparing for the big meal . |
| 21 | The drinks were bought and finished and bought again . |
| 22 | Then those hands were unzipping and tugging and peeling off clothes as though they were on fire . |
| 23 | Hughes has recounted the devastating effect of successive raids on Liverpool and Birkenhead , in which 130 vessels were damaged or sunk and countless warehouses containing sugar , cotton and other vital commodities were destroyed . |
| 24 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 25 | The slaves ' hands were blistered and flayed and oozing , covered with angry weals that were burns from direct contact with the white heat of the furnace doors . |
| 26 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 27 | By 5.30 pm the last barrowloads of whindust were laid and rolled and the job was done , apart from one set of bollards ( to stop vehicles ) which had still to be erected , and some tidying up of site . |
| 28 | More ideas and experiences were shared and discussed and |
| 29 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 30 | Stroll by and pass the time of day , when you were ranting and raving and threatening ’ |