Example sentences of "and was [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 2 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 3 | He had white hair and a white moustache and was dressed in a dark suit and stiff white collar . |
| 4 | When she arrived she looked exhausted like everyone else , and was dressed in a droopy Seventies handkerchief dress from Lagerfeld 's collection for Chloe . |
| 5 | Parkwood was a large house set in its own grounds and was situated in a rural area of woodlands and fields , and was , to Leith 's mind , quite idyllic . |
| 6 | Margy was twenty-seven when we spoke with her and was living in a one-bedroomed flat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with her three-year-old daughter Donna , her second child . |
| 7 | The show , which ran for a week , was extremely well attended , had wide press coverage within the country and was included in a German-made TV programme on Documenta . |
| 8 | The refurbished unit enjoyed a 26 per cent increase in seating capacity and was finished in a two-tone brown livery embellished with an orange band at waist level . |
| 9 | She woke up some hours later and everything was clean and white and she was clean and was lying in a fresh cotton garment between stiff sheets . |
| 10 | Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp . |
| 11 | She had quickly abandoned her sensual mistress 's garb and was attired in a clingtight Assassin 's black tunic . |
| 12 | He was wearing a brown leather jacket , black jeans and was carrying in a blue holdall . |
| 13 | He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles . |
| 14 | This heterogeneous group , initially totalling over 30,000 and loosely under the command of a German colonel , von Seeler , surrendered to 5 Corps on 12 May and was concentrated in a large open encampment at Viktring , south-west of Klagenfurt . |
| 15 | She fell , and was sitting in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 16 | The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery . |
| 17 | In 1857 the whole of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in Probate and Administration was taken away and was vested in a new court — the Court of Probate . |
| 18 | He died from a brain tumour on February 21 , 1945 , and was buried in a small garden on the camp . |
| 19 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |