Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong .
3 We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework .
4 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 .
5 After lengthy discussion this was approved , subject to a number of points which required further consideration and were stood over to a further meeting .
6 Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar .
7 People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before .
8 I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor .
9 Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it .
10 ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky .
11 Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it .
12 He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base .
13 And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country .
14 Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents .
15 When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall .
16 Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House .
17 They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus .
18 And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy .
19 One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road .
20 The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol .
21 In his last 16 games as manager , Macari 's West Ham won only three matches and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Fourth Division Torquay .
22 We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it .
23 We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it .
24 The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves .
25 Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared .
26 shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade .
27 Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold .
28 Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin , the latter totally naked , stumbled into the street and were taken in by a neighbour who offered them a shower and clothing .
29 Amaranth and Mrs de Crespigny summoned a taxi and were taken back to the Grand .
30 Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh .
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