Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wreaked havoc in the country villages , looted and burned at will and were drunk more often than sober . |
| 2 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 3 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 4 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 5 | Then she died a thousand deaths and was born again instantly as at last his lips came down to cover hers . |
| 6 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
| 7 | We encountered two technical complications : one stent was badly positioned and was left too proximally because of a technical problem during insertion . |
| 8 | Leading intellectuals had been purged but were treated more leniently than in the past . |