Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 5 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 6 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Amaranth and Mrs de Crespigny summoned a taxi and were taken back to the Grand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 27 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 28 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 29 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 30 | But he immediately disagreed with the producer about the politics of the show , and was sent back to the Science Unit . |