Example sentences of "and was [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Output had been steadily growing by about five million bottles every fifteen years , and was destined to reach a total of no less than thirty million bottles a year by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 3 | Mr Smyth said Williams worked as a leisure professional but also served as a Special Constable and was hoping to become a police officer in the future . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 6 | He was already acting for a number of young painters including Kisling , Hayden and Kremegne , and was determined to find a way of fostering Modigliani 's talent . |
| 7 | In Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Co Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 805 the plaintiff took her wedding dress to be dry cleaned and was asked to sign a form . |
| 8 | In 1061 , a Saxon lady Richeldas de Faverche of Walsingham had a vision of Our Lady and was asked to build a model of the holy house in her grounds . |
| 9 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |
| 10 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a beautiful boat and was designed to have a lady and gentleman in the stern and the chauffeur at the wheel , ’ Mr Freebody added . |
| 12 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
| 13 | Tony Elliott had just finished his third year at Keele University and was preparing to spend a year in France as part of his four-year French and History degree course . |
| 14 | Balor had unbuttoned his jerkin and brushed the crumbs from his front and was preparing to take a snooze . |
| 15 | Colvin had known Burne-Jones , and was persuaded to write a preface for a London gallery show . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite all the money flowing in from concerts , pupils and publications , Mozart was indeed in debt again by the year 's end and was having to beg a loan from his publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister — for whom his next string quartet , K. 499 ( the ‘ Hoffmeister ’ ) , was written , perhaps in gratitude . |
| 17 | Mr Arafat , had been in Sudan and was expected to visit a guerrilla base in south-east Libya . |
| 18 | The FASB issued an exposure draft on the subject in September 1991 , and was expected to issue a statement later this year . |
| 19 | I wish I behaved well , and was going to inherit a fortune ! ’ |
| 20 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |