Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | Some officers broke ranks and were met with a volley of stones . |
| 3 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 4 | Tablets were provided by Merck , Sharp , and Dohme and were kept with the randomisation schedule in the hospital pharmacy . |
| 5 | Since the new recruits in the hive had not been tampered with and were stimulated by the light , they misinterpreted the dance of the returning foragers . |
| 6 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 7 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 8 | They were given permission and were destroyed as the herd of pigs drowned in the lake . |
| 9 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 11 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 12 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 13 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 14 | Both boys faced South Sefton Youth Court in Bootle on Monday and were remanded to the care of Liverpool City Council . |
| 15 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 16 | Vassals owed loyalty to their lords and were bound by an oath of allegiance which encouraged the acceptance of their status . |
| 17 | The replies to this question were interesting and were given with no prompting . |
| 18 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 19 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 20 | The aeromagnetic data are on flight lines typically spaced at 2 km and were collected at a height of 305 m . |
| 21 | The first bogies used at Wolverton were designed after the American model , and were constructed like the underframe then in use , partly of iron and partly of timber . |
| 22 | All these records are twelve inches in diameter and were made by the Gramophone Company of Great Britain between 1920 and 1925 . |
| 23 | The longest pre-recorded cylinders regularly marketed bore the legend ‘ Smethurst 's System ’ , and were made by the Sterling company in London . |
| 24 | Any of the casuals who showed signs of being genuinely ill were referred to the medical officer and were treated in the infirmary . |
| 25 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |
| 26 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 27 | Indeed , its constituent elements characterised and were inherited from the tradition of labourism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 28 | People became mannequins and were consumed by the chaos . |
| 29 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 30 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |