Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belief that the NKLP possessed little if any independence and was a vehicle for the implementation of Soviet foreign policy was held by most American officials , including George Kennan , and was illustrated in the reactions to the events of 25 June 1950 . |
| 2 | The rearrangements came too late for fly half Mike Robson , who was unavailable to travel to Kelso and was selected in the seconds . |
| 3 | A doctor attempted to rescue the men and was killed by the fumes . |
| 4 | Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 5 | I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters . |
| 6 | In the Twenties , he was an inspiration to the young muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco and was revered by the Surrealists . |
| 7 | When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up . |
| 8 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 9 | But he did come upon the little house that was waiting for him , in a clearing in the depths , and was cheered by the lines of yellow light he could see between and under the shutters . |
| 10 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 11 | According to the police evidence ( which the judge at the voir dire preferred ) Francis agreed to plead guilty and sign the notes ; the solicitor advised him not to and was reprimanded by the police . |
| 12 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 13 | The mining equipment had powered up and was descending into the depths of the shaft . |
| 14 | Rather than the buildings it was the lights and circulation in the new centre of Paris — on the Avenue de l'Opéra , the Boulevard Madeleine , the Boulevard des Capucines , the Rue Auber , the Boulevard des Italiens — which attracted the foreign visitor and was registered in the cityscapes of Monet and Renoir in the 1970s . |
| 15 | It lies in the western shadows of Thunder Mountain , and was discovered by the Dwarfs who mined into it creating a labyrinth of tunnels , caverns and partially complete workings . |
| 16 | Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others . |
| 17 | The evil thing that came into my house that night — as Jekyll told me — was known by the name of Hyde , and was wanted by the police for the murder of Sir Danvers Carew . |
| 18 | Her annual Sports Afternoon for the Physically Disabled at Luton was a successful as ever , and was attended by the mayors of Dunstable and Luton . |
| 19 | The regional conference was held in Dar es Salaam , the capital of Tanzania , on Feb. 19 and was attended by the Presidents of Rwanda , Uganda , Zaïre , Burundi , Kenya and Tanzania . |
| 20 | After the murder in April of one of Pravda 's rabkory who had reported abuses in a Moscow factory , the whole movement was galvanized into greater activity , and was to spread round the provinces by 1923 . |
| 21 | He moved to Louth in 1938 and was based at the maltings on Leakes Row . |
| 22 | Each ability grouping consisted of a girl and a boy and was based on the results from a weekly arithmetic exercise in the 6 weeks prior to the study . |
| 23 | Much , however , already had and was to happen behind the scenes . |
| 24 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 25 | On the morning of Easter Saturday the marquee , borrowed for the Easter Fete through Mrs Stead-Carter , arrived in the rectory garden and was erected by the men who brought it , as it always was . |
| 26 | But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh . |
| 27 | He waited till the boy turned away from the edge of the pool again and was looking into the trees behind him . |
| 28 | By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 29 | She was not helped by two long delays in the first game when the ball flew out of the court and was lost under the bleachers . |
| 30 | One legend , often called " The Deliverance of Mankind " or " The Destruction of Mankind " , was inscribed on the largest gilded wooden shrine surrounding the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun and was written on the walls of later New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings , those of Seti I and Ramesses II possessing the most complete texts . |