Example sentences of "and was [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He kept hens too , and was also a pigeon enthusiast .
2 Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn .
3 Fran Beasley is Community Care Plan Co-ordinator with Westminster Social Services and was formerly a Research Fellow in the Centre .
4 Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War .
5 The rate seems to have been about half that of an ordinary return and was perhaps a day ticket , although no mention of that condition is made .
6 The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill .
7 Bremner was never a mercenary player , but he believed implicitly in player power and was always the dressing-room shop steward , demanding , hustling and manipulating until the Leeds United board capitulated .
8 She had joined the Met with three A levels and a huge number of O levels as an eighteen-year-old , then worked her way over into the CID , and was now a Detective Sergeant and ready to move up , having passed the exams for Inspector .
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