Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her husband Louis , a garage owner , had bought the upper floor from a Jewish family and were bringing up their four children there . |
| 2 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 3 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 4 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 5 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |
| 6 | Then all items received a good spraying with the Waxoyl/white spirit solution , and were touched up with Ensis fluid if there was any sign of troublesome ferrous metals within . |
| 7 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |
| 8 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 9 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 10 | They were extremely impressed by what he said and were buoyed up by his message that the Government are determined to ensure that the proposals on reform of the common agricultural policy are strongly resisted because they are not in the interests of Scotland 's farmers . |
| 11 | They were chasing a total of 160 and were ticking along nicely . |
| 12 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 13 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 14 | Prospective cohort study in which participants underwent a standard dental examination at baseline and were followed up to 1987 . |
| 15 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 16 | 1455 children entered the Health Study and were followed up for 1185 child-years ( 596 vitamin A group , 589 placebo group ) . |
| 17 | The Agentes , in particular , seemed to be affected by the oppressive mood of the island and were taking out their fears in the hacking blows of their swords . |
| 18 | After lengthy discussion this was approved , subject to a number of points which required further consideration and were stood over to a further meeting . |
| 19 | The Democratic party winner partied hard through the night in Little Rock after his message of change pulled in voters of all parties who feared the future and were fed up with Bush . |
| 20 | We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness . |
| 21 | Local people had approached the IFI and were turned down , but would have been funded had their businesses been located in Bangor . |
| 22 | I accidentally spilt some soft drink on the bench where we had lunch , and in a minute a dozen skinks had homed in and were lapping up the liquid . |
| 23 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 24 | ‘ After my disastrous penalty give-away , Peter and I played quite well and were invited back . ’ |
| 25 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 26 | Margaret and Jack Carolan , from Huyton , had sneaked a camera inside and were snapping off shots as keepsakes . |
| 27 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 28 | We hung over the rim and were stared back at by our reflections , horribly deformed in the cracks of the thin ice . |
| 29 | As he re-entered the bedroom he noticed that some of the drawers lay open and were messed up , and as the truth began to dawn on him he ran to his private money supply hidden in a sock , for his outings to the pub . |
| 30 | At that moment both were bounced by Bf109s , and were shot down . |