Example sentences of "and were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | The failure to identify bed sharing as a risk factor in non-Maori children was probably due to the very small proportion of infants in this group who both shared a bed and were exposed to maternal smoking . |
| 3 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 4 | It is the root of our sense of smell and taste , fear and desire , and it still remembers the dragons we ate and were eaten by . |
| 5 | Victor and Anna were fishing ; they 'd just caught something and were shouting to us . |
| 6 | She and her husband Louis , a garage owner , had bought the upper floor from a Jewish family and were bringing up their four children there . |
| 7 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 8 | The food followed quickly , and they both ate the delicious fresh fish with relish , and were enjoying coffee and coconut-cream pie when Stephen was called to the telephone . |
| 9 | Now on this occasion after " last orders " when Joe had got rid of everyone , save the remnants of my party , we went downstairs into the cellar and were enjoying pints drawn off by Mrs Joe when there was a great thundering on the door . |
| 10 | We also sometimes wish that we were given notice about the arrangements being made for us , and were consulted . |
| 11 | Consumer-orientated , it invited listeners to write in about anything they had found difficult to buy or do and were wanting to know why . |
| 12 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 15 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 16 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 17 | Lydia and Betty were the first to arrive and were met by two of the farm dogs — one charming , one not , like pairs of detective inspectors . |
| 18 | Some officers broke ranks and were met with a volley of stones . |
| 19 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 20 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 21 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 22 | Tablets were provided by Merck , Sharp , and Dohme and were kept with the randomisation schedule in the hospital pharmacy . |
| 23 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 24 | Russia felt under threat from attack constantly , and the Russian people had many sacrifices demanded on them , and were kept lean and hungry . |
| 25 | In the heat of the action few players had time to discuss their reactions and were kept clear of the press . |
| 26 | These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices . |
| 27 | The boats surrounded the whales , drove them into nets , where they became enmeshed and were rendered helpless by harpoon thrusts . |
| 28 | Between February 1950 ( when the electorate returned the Labour Government with a barely adequate majority ) and October 1951 ( when Labour went to the polls again and were defeated ) , the confidence and authority of Gaitskell , as of his Government , withered . |
| 29 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 30 | Though he has yet to finish on a winning side — Great Britain lost both tests and were defeated 8-O at Leigh — & name is confident the side will come up with the goods this time . |