Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 2 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 3 | Ms Toynbee said Schmit had flown in from Zurich earlier that morning and was waiting to travel on another Wardair flight to Vancouver . |
| 4 | He continued in his refusal to offer a defence in his trial on charges of corruption , which opened in March 1991 and was expected to continue through most of the year [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 5 | A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate . |