Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almost innumerable Goblins ravaged a large tract of Yvresse and were barely turned back at Tor Yvresse by the heroic efforts of Eltharion . |
| 2 | In the corporation of London , for example , the fact that local elections were spread across the year ( with those for the sheriffs being in midsummer , for the lord mayor in September , and for the common councilmen in December ) , and were invariably fought out along party lines , meant that political passions seldom had a chance to cool down . |
| 3 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 4 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 5 | Many appeared to be visibly drunk at matches and were often thrown out by the police for this reason . |
| 6 | The remainder , with the exception of the woman with the dislocated jaw and the man with the angina attack , were mainly suffering from severe shock and were quickly taken out to the ambulances . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , some of the patients could not return for frequent follow up visits to our clinic because of distance and also health care costs and were therefore referred back with our treatment plan to their own physicians . |
| 8 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 9 | Whatever the mitigating circumstances — the heat , effects of jetlag and an injury to Mark Appleson — Scotland did not make a very good fist of it on Saturday when they lost their pool match to Western Samoa and were then tumbled out of the plate 38-5 by New Zealand . |
| 10 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 11 | ‘ We were really young , and were almost burnt out at 21 years old , ’ explained Setzer . |
| 12 | Heavy-eyed , yawning and bewildered men appeared in doorways , and were promptly cut down by the attackers . |
| 13 | He lost his mother as a young boy , and was partly brought up by relatives . |
| 14 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 15 | Hayling was a brilliant pupil at school and was soon marked down as Oxbridge material . |
| 16 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 17 | Poor Martha Lamb was having her fourth baby and was probably hustled up to the attic rooms on the floor above out of earshot ; the child , a boy , was born during the night . |
| 18 | But he lost his Test place in New Zealand last winter and was also left out of the World Cup squad . |
| 19 | It regularly returned to the farm and was regularly brought back by Rose . |
| 20 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 21 | Their case began in an industrial tribunal in 1986 , went to the European Court and was finally ruled on in April 1991 . |
| 22 | The woman began to bear witness to the Jesus of whom she knew almost nothing , and was physically beaten up for her pains . |
| 23 | As an invective against chaos it is convincing — and was even held up by past critics as an illustration of Shakespeare 's own belief in hierarchical society . |
| 24 | Farquhar , listening outside the door , dived in , knife drawn , and was nearly trodden on by his half stunned dallta . |
| 25 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 26 | When he had had his breakfast , he went to the shed , opened the door and was nearly knocked out by the overpowering smell . |
| 27 | He then became a leader of the thakin group — thakin was the name given to a European , equivalent to sahib in India — and in 1940 fled from the country and was later joined by about thirty others . |
| 28 | During her late teens she was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations and was later kicked out of university for neglecting her studies . |
| 29 | In the late 1930s , however , the Club failed and was later taken over by C.A.V. |
| 30 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |