Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Return along drive past points where it was joined earlier and descend into minor valley with pool on left , turning right onto another track as soon as drive starts to ascend again . |
| 2 | This car was stripped out and written off after being stolen from a car park . |
| 3 | The patient was treated medically and released without further consideration of potential zoonotic disease . |
| 4 | When she returned to the room with the salted hot water , Frank and May between them had lifted Andrew on to the bed , and there he was propped up and breathing very heavily now . |
| 5 | After their marriage , Mr Williams was posted abroad and served more than six years in several countries , including a spell in the North African desert . |
| 6 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 7 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 8 | Cowles postulated that the sequence thus observed in space was equivalent to that observed in time when a section of lake was filled in and converted to dry land . |
| 9 | Once the firing was completed the clinker was broken out and carted away to be ground . |
| 10 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 11 | it means nothing to them , what they did last year was sat there and got irritated and they kept like running about |
| 12 | Lester was best man and made a zany film of the wedding , in which the action was speeded up and slowed down . |
| 13 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 14 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 15 | The temporary bridge was first of all submerged then , like a matchstick , it was lifted up and swept aside . |
| 16 | The crash above their heads had come when it was lifted bodily and flung across the deck . |
| 17 | The bath-sponge tumour was lifted out and dropped into the soap-dish by the bed . |
| 18 | The door was staved in and torn half off its hinges in what looked like an act of senseless violence . |
| 19 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 20 | Lowe and his nephew were sojourning was torn up and washed away , and the nephew and two men , overwhelmed by the torrent , sank and perished . |
| 21 | She was carried up and flung outward . |
| 22 | A major rationalisation exercise was carried out and resulted in the creation of a single Head Office at Nailsea which now undertakes all the accounting and administration for Wimpey Hobbs , Wimpey Asphalt and the Overseas Contracting activities . |
| 23 | A review of the Garden 's options for the use of information technology over the next five years was carried out and made available for staff comments . |
| 24 | Later Beatrice was carried in and laid on the sofa , sobered by the experience , her breasts daubed in blood . |
| 25 | It was n't real till it was let out and tried on the air and approved . |
| 26 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 27 | Further information was contained on and used by the payroll system which was not contained on or used by the PMIS and vice versa It was therefore decided that the updating procedures for the Payroll Master File and the PMIS should be kept separate at this stage . |
| 28 | It was contained totally and has not spread anywhere else . ’ |
| 29 | Hart 's Rules was respected worldwide and ran into thirty-nine editions . |
| 30 | While being towed back to Sirri after the first incident , Harmony I was attacked again and sank . |