Example sentences of "and was [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As a 17-year-old , Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden .
2 The revision of Chapter II on Evidence followed and was completed at the Eleventh Session of the Conference in October 1968 .
3 The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago .
4 Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers .
5 Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus .
6 During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m .
7 He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in .
8 It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded .
9 Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 .
10 ‘ In 1346 the population of Europe comprised eighty million people , and was growing at a rapid rate .
11 ‘ I think not , ’ said Meredith , and was gratified at the crestfallen slump to the young ma 's shoulders as lie trailed towards the lift .
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