Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When his sheep ate some clover the other day , and were swollen just like these , he sent for Gabriel at once , and Gabriel saved their lives . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 3 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 4 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 5 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 6 | ‘ We thought all our problems were behind us and were looking forward to a new life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |
| 9 | Then all items received a good spraying with the Waxoyl/white spirit solution , and were touched up with Ensis fluid if there was any sign of troublesome ferrous metals within . |
| 10 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |
| 11 | Swiftly they drove south and were stopped only after desperate fighting round the Griffon Gate . |
| 12 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 13 | They were extremely impressed by what he said and were buoyed up by his message that the Government are determined to ensure that the proposals on reform of the common agricultural policy are strongly resisted because they are not in the interests of Scotland 's farmers . |
| 14 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 15 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 16 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 1455 children entered the Health Study and were followed up for 1185 child-years ( 596 vitamin A group , 589 placebo group ) . |
| 19 | Prospective cohort study in which participants underwent a standard dental examination at baseline and were followed up to 1987 . |
| 20 | The songs of the whales carry through the water , over long distances with astonishing clarity , and were heard clearly through the wooden hulls of the old whaling ships in calm weather , giving rise to the belief that the sounds were the songs of mermaids . |
| 21 | Those unable to attend the parade watched it on television , and were joined later by some of the overseas visitors who had proudly paraded before Her Majesty The Queen outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 22 | Two more structures fronting the main road , whose line is roughly perpetuated by Blackfriars Street leading south from the fort , were separated by side-streets and were planned more like domestic dwellings than military structures . |
| 23 | After lengthy discussion this was approved , subject to a number of points which required further consideration and were stood over to a further meeting . |
| 24 | The Democratic party winner partied hard through the night in Little Rock after his message of change pulled in voters of all parties who feared the future and were fed up with Bush . |
| 25 | We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness . |
| 26 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 27 | The Minister of Industry , Commerce and Integration , Jacinto Jouvin , and of Finance and Public Credit , Jorge Gallardo , resigned in early January and were replaced respectively by Pablo Better and Juan Falconi . |
| 28 | Thus Harwell scientists were , in effect , now able to ‘ look inside ’ ZETA and were learning more about the behaviour of the plasma . |
| 29 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 30 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |