Example sentences of "and was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the conversation in which Midnight had no part , she felt a sudden pity for him which increased the sense of gratitude already there , and was slightly surprised when the foppish Randall asked him a direct question : |
| 2 | Another passenger jumped off and was slightly injured . |
| 3 | The acting captain Terry Butcher , bloodied but unbowed , gave a particularly stirring performance that night and was ably complemented by Des Walker until the Nottingham Forest defender almost gave the match away with an aberrant pass back . |
| 4 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
| 5 | He arrived in Abyssinia and was cordially received by the Emperor , but was never allowed to leave the country . |
| 6 | Mozart was particularly angered when on one particular occasion he was prevented from playing to the emperor and was thereby deprived of a fee equal to half his annual salary . |
| 7 | Outside critics , of which the most devastating was the Oxford economist Ian Little , had no difficulty in showing that their arguments ‘ fail to wriggle out of the obvious ’ , which was that much of the domestic thermal load was being sold below cost and was thereby winning heating markets which could be more efficiently supplied by alternative fuels at lower overall national cost . |
| 8 | Bardic tradition , for example , found a refuge in the Celtic Church and was thereby preserved . |
| 9 | So the judge was calling a witness who was an important link in the prosecution case and was thereby assisting in making that case . |
| 10 | The leaders returned to the Knesset for the vote , in which the Shamir government was defeated by 60 votes to 55 ( with five abstentions ) , and was thereby relegated to the status of a minority-backed caretaker administration . |
| 11 | This applies even where ( as was usual ) the stable incorporated a loft for the storage of hay so that this fodder could be pitched readily into the racks in the stalls below , because the loft exploited the roof space and was rarely built as a full-height upper storey . |
| 12 | Despite all its problems the Club had a strong will to succeed and was rarely despondent . |
| 13 | There might be the very occasional gift for a personal service , but the bottle of beer from a few householders and especially from the publicans was the only obvious economic transaction , and was rarely ennobled as a ‘ payment ’ for services rendered . |
| 14 | So Shaun got to hold court , shoot his mouth off and was rarely challenged for his dodgy comments . |
| 15 | Lifers were entitled after two years to apply for furlough to maintain contact with their families , but this was in the hands of the police department , not the prison authorities , and was rarely granted — a matter of some concern to the gaol Superintendent . |
| 16 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 17 | About midnight four days later , the headquarters building of the Housing Executive burst into flames and was badly damaged . |
| 18 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 19 | He was given the chance to show his skills on four wheels when Alfa Romeo gave him a trial , but he crashed one of their cars at Monza and was badly injured . |
| 20 | The Italian front was the place where he volunteered to be an ambulance driver during the next year , and was badly wounded . |
| 21 | Next year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and was badly wounded . |
| 22 | At that time there was a war raging in Europe , and the next year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and was badly wounded during an attack by the enemy army . |
| 23 | Next year he volunteered as the ambulance driver on an Italian front and was badly wounded . |
| 24 | He appeared against John Penruddock [ q.v. ] and his rebels in 1655 , but refused any office under Oliver Cromwell , and was badly beaten in the 1656 elections . |
| 25 | He worked at Anderson 's factory and was badly injured when a kiln in which he was working collapsed . |
| 26 | For example , if the ship had a 5 degree list and was badly leaking it would be totally unseaworthy and this would be a breach of a condition enabling the hirer to repudiate the contract . |
| 27 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 28 | On June 17th , the day before Immelmann died , Chapman ran into the great Boelcke and was badly shot up . |
| 29 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 30 | Brass is another important alloy of copper ( made with zinc ) , which first appears during the latter half of the first millennium BC and was widely used from the Roman period onwards . |