Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
| 2 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 3 | I played a couple of hundred sons-of-bitches on TV and was making some good money from it so I could afford to buy as much booze as I wanted . |
| 4 | Khan himself was elected a Congress party MP for Rampur in 1967 , and was returned another four times . |
| 5 | Information from secret intelligence sources indicated that Brigadier Jazali had reorganised his action squads after last autumn 's abortive attacks and was planning some new initiative . |