Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |
| 2 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 3 | Details of patients are given in table i and they were divided into four groups : groups a : colorectal carcinoma ; group b : benign colorectal tumours — that is , tubulovillous adenomas ; group c : inflammatory bowel disease ( five patients had ulcerative colitis and one patient had crohns disease , with stool frequencies ranging from four to six motions per day ; all patients had diffuse pan-colitis and were histologically reported as ‘ moderate active chronic colitis ’ ; and group d : haemorrhoidectomy . |
| 4 | And we had a round pie chart and it was split into all different hours . |
| 5 | In 1982 the Government announced the closure of the dockyard and it was divided into three parts . |
| 6 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 7 | Both accounts also demonstrate that as soon as this new configuration was established , Oppenheimer described it as ‘ technically so sweet ’ , and it was translated into practical terms in under two years , for the November 1952 ‘ MIKE ’ test . |