Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 3 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 4 | The gardens are the earliest example of Italian design in Bohemia and were laid out in 1534 by Giovanni Spazio for Ferdinand I. They were enlarged and altered by Jan Vredeman de Vries in 1563 and , following the vagaries of fashion , were transformed into French Baroque style in 1730 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Though popular with his contemporaries , and a fine sportsman , gaining a tennis half-blue at Cambridge , Horne did not have a spectacular academic career and was sent down in December 1927 . |
| 7 | The questionnaire was piloted in a number of institutions in Scotland in May 1985 , and was sent out in final form in July 1985 to every state higher education institution in the UK offering teacher education courses . |
| 8 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 9 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 10 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 11 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 12 | She tried to brush her assailant aside with the words , ‘ One day all the facts , in about thirty years ’ time , will be published , ’ and was ticked off in return . |
| 13 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 14 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 15 | It grew out of the work of the wartime Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and was set up in 1946 , with the great economist Lord Keynes as its first Chairman . |
| 16 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 17 | The percutaneous extraction of gall stones was first described in 1985 , for the treatment of high risk patients with acute cholecystitis , and was carried out in up to five stages using a transhepatic tract . |
| 18 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 19 | Midfielder Scott Sellars was sold to Blackburn for £35,000 and was bought back in the summer for £750,000 . |
| 20 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 21 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 22 | The La Platense venture never lived up to its promise and was taken over in its entirety by the Dennys and Hendersons in 1885–6 . |
| 23 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 24 | He came from a family of fourteen and was brought up in Ramsgate . |
| 25 | Cath trained as a nurse and was brought up in Lenzie . |
| 26 | He was born in India , the son of a father with a distinguished military career in the Gurkhas , and was brought up in what was Rhodesia . |
| 27 | The community charge was introduced first in Scotland , and was brought in in England and Wales in 1990 . |
| 28 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 29 | Lady Usk , ’ she added , turning to the old lady , who had resumed fanning herself and was sitting back in her chair with a smug look on her face , ‘ I will certainly see you again . |
| 30 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |