Example sentences of "was [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copa Bitoo had moved away from a subsistence economy , but was producing fruit and nuts for the local market , not for export . |
| 2 | Since the group was formed £17,000 has been donated to the Third World causes mainly through Cafod . |
| 3 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 4 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 5 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 6 | Astonishingly Mathews , the only member of the murder gang to be apprehended , was given £1000 , half of which he passed to Drury . |
| 7 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | Goalkeeper Frazer Digby said he was given £1,000 as a loyalty payment , and a £50-a-game clean-sheet award when he did n't let in any goals . |
| 9 | He was given £100,000 in damages , more than a testimonial at Elland Road would ever have reaped . |
| 10 | Deeside Training Enterprise was given £100,000 by Grampian Enterprise in 1991 to show ex-servicemen and women how best to sell their skills to civilian employers . |
| 11 | The allocator was given $10 and asked to divide the cash between himself and the receiver . |
| 12 | Matthew Prince was given £2,000 for each of the four whacks he received aged 15 at Brighton College , Sussex . |
| 13 | Eddie Heley , Maintenance Fitter , was given £10 for an idea that could reduced wear and save down time on Axminster looms by fitting hardened brushes to the sneck sleeve bracket . |
| 14 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 15 | He was given £2 for his troubles . |
| 16 | He was given £2 10 0d to travel to Stockport . |
| 17 | Twelve schools submitted satisfactory proposals and each was given £400 to help carry out its project . |
| 18 | Aged 18 , she was given £50,000 from the fund to buy her famous Colherne Court flat , where she lived until her engagement to Charles . |
| 19 | The convicted man 's counsel said that Mr Kevin Sarbutts was given £6,500 by an assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard after the trial . |
| 20 | In 1989 Conisborough Castle in South Yorkshire was given ECU 0.151 million for the construction of a heritage and visitor centre with audio-visual facilities . |
| 21 | Anyway I was given sixpence , fourpence for the papers and tuppence for myself . |
| 22 | The government rejected the highest offer , fudged the auction rules , then accepted a revised offer from the third-highest bidder , who was given 26% of the bank 's shares . |
| 23 | Each adult in the group of 51 who were sent back yesterday was given $30 pocket money , and each child $15 . |
| 24 | Also the boy 's 15s. 0d. doctor 's bill was paid by the Club , and he was given 9s. 0d. compensation . |
| 25 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 26 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 27 | She said council was helping people by providing mortgages to those who would not normally qualify . |
| 28 | What John did was eat fish and chips . |
| 29 | Rent is also specified in the case of John Swyft at Hene , Worcs. , as well as the three co-owners of a property at Stourbridge ; even more circumstantially the prior of Worcester was assigned £5. 13s. 4d. a year ‘ for rente of ye farm of ye manor ’ of Bredicote . |
| 30 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |