Example sentences of "and were [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returned to office in 1957 and 1961 , he and his party came under severe UK and US pressure and were defeated in the 1964 elections ( the last before independence in 1966 ; see pp. 19841 ; 21428 ) . |
| 2 | She sent the first correct solution selected and knew that the teams this century who appeared in FA Cup finals and were relegated in the same season were Brighton ( 1983 ) , Leicester ( 1969 ) , Manchester City ( 1926 ) and Chelsea ( 1915 ) |
| 3 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 4 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 5 | C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen . |
| 6 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 7 | These reverberated throughout the labour movement at the time , and were reawakened in the 1984–5 dispute . |
| 8 | Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon had been influenced by the demonstration at the Indépendants , and were included in the Cubist room at the Salon d'Automne . |
| 9 | The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently . |