Example sentences of "and [was/were] much [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul and Muriel entertained lavishly and were much loved in Venice . |
| 2 | He told them that we were a very ancient family in Palestine and were much respected . |
| 3 | We had one anxious telephone call from a Swedish newspaperman , who had run the story in his weekly science column , and was much perturbed when two professors challenged him to prove that the story was true . |
| 4 | He was tall and elegant , with a good head of hair , and was much given to pacing about . |
| 5 | He was proud to be ex officio senior fellow of Eton and was much moved by the visit of King George VI , Queen Elizabeth , and Princess Margaret to the college . |
| 6 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 7 | The species was first successfully introduced to Britain independently in 1861 by John G. Veicht , an Exeter nursery-man , and the Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune and was much sought after by those coveting the rare and the curious . |
| 8 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 9 | He had started in Norman Shaw 's office and was much encouraged by him . |
| 10 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 11 | India is the home of this strongly aromatic plant where it is perennial , and where its history of use stretches back many thousands of years , It is regarded as sacred by the Hindus and was much used for disinfecting where malaria was present In the house . |