Example sentences of "were both [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |
| 2 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 3 | For the second group , A was always followed by events having comparable strength ( X and Y were both reinforced on 50 per cent of occasions ) . |
| 4 | In its concern with manipulation , classical criminology was fully compatible with its successor , positivist criminology ; they were both based on the belief that the primary purpose of the penal system was to control crime . |
| 5 | Classification of the disease course ( remission/mild , moderate or severe ) and calculation of the mean stool frequency were both based on the highest level of disease activity experienced during the entire study . |
| 6 | They were both born by Caesarean , one under general anaesthetic and one under an epidural . |
| 7 | My Mother and Father were both born in Western Australia . |
| 8 | The Van Railway , like the BCR , was built from plans drawn by Robert and Benjamin Piercy , who were both born in Trefeglwys , where one of the stations was built . |
| 9 | Mrs Cossins and husband Ray decided four children was enough but ended up with six when nine-year-old Stephen and Caroline , eight , were both born after a sterilisation operation at North Tees General Hospital . |
| 10 | It must have been a proud moment for William Lee , particularly as " Monarch " and " Renown " were both built at his own yard . |
| 11 | Warrington centre Batemen ( injured thigh ) and Hull forward Marlow ( groin strain ) were both named in the side to play in Perpignan . |
| 12 | Suite and Primavera were both given at Witwatersrand University , Johannesburg , on 3 to 6 October 1945 ( six performances ) . |
| 13 | Estrada , a senator , and Defensor Santiago , were both seen as populist outsiders . |
| 14 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 15 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 16 | Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki , Mandela 's veteran prison companions who had been released in Oct. 1989 and November 1987 respectively [ pp. 36964 ; 36074 ] after serving long prison sentences , were both re-elected to the executive , now enlarged to 34 members . |
| 17 | Within seconds they were both drenched to the skin . |
| 18 | Kohl 's political wisdom and the change of mood in German politics were both confirmed in the elections of 6 March 1983 . |
| 19 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 20 | England 's Nick Faldo and Nick Price of Zimbabwe were both disqualified by the tournament director Buddy Young . |
| 21 | The bank and the nearby Wellworths store were both destroyed in the blast which also devastated dozens of other shops and offices in nearby side streets . |
| 22 | We were both absorbed in our work when we heard angry cries : the owner of the field hurrying towards us armed with a big stick . |
| 23 | Madame 's room above The Bar had a large glass-fronted bookcase , and also a high bookshelf running right round the red-lacquered ceiling , and they were both stacked with biographies and autobiographies of financially successful women ; courtesans , couturiers , financiers , novelists , acrobats , madams , actresses , mistresses , singers and wives . |
| 24 | Spencer , and another former Strangeways inmate , Andrew Nelson , 22 , who was among four men acquitted of riot , were both jailed for 18 months for contempt of court after threats to jurors and their families . |
| 25 | Stephen Jones , 34 , a welder of Stopgate Lane , Fazakerley , and Paul Miller , 33 , of Ashbank Road , Norris Green , were both jailed for six months . |
| 26 | Six months later the advertising agency was taken over by its successful rivals ; two months after that they were both incorporated in De Chavigny ( Advertising ) , a new company with offices in London , Paris , Zurich , Milan and New York , registered in the Balearic Islands , and with sole responsibility for the marketing of all de Chavigny products and investments , from steel to hotels and property , world-wide . |
| 27 | Hamid , 53 , and his publisher , Mohammed Madbouli , were both sentenced to eight years in prison . |
| 28 | Jampel Changchub and Ngawang Phulchung , Tibetan Buddhist monks at Drepung monastery , were both sentenced in 1989 to 19 years ' imprisonment — the longest sentence against prisoners of conscience ever imposed in recent years by the authorities in Tibet . |
| 29 | As his two sons , Edmund and Lenthall , were both killed at Steenkirk in 1692 he was , in the words of his epitaph ‘ Warcupporum ultimus ’ . |
| 30 | They were both killed in a car crash when I was sixteen . ’ |