Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 2 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 3 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 4 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 5 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 6 | Johnson took enormous pleasure in the honour , and reported it in both his book and , more touchingly , in his correspondence with Mrs Thrale : ‘ I had the honour of attending the Lord Provost of Aberdeen , and was presented with the freedom of the city , not in a gold box but in good Latin . |
| 7 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 8 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 9 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 10 | The City and Guilds 201 certificate was for doing a course on the theory and practical aspects of machining and was presented by the director general of Lincoln Technology College , John A Barnes . |
| 11 | By 1970 the former was negotiating an ambitious first degree scheme with the CNAA , which was explained by the Vice-Provost as more fully meeting the needs of students , employers and society , and was presented in the belief that ‘ polytechnics should develop a degree pattern which includes an increasing amount of interdisciplinary study ’ . |
| 12 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 13 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 14 | erm I just put that up , which should have been up while we were talking about money , which is erm the beautiful Oxford crown , which you can see downstairs , which was minted at New Inn Hall , the college that emptied , and was turned into the mint , mostly from college plate . |
| 15 | The obvious implication is that the writer had experienced the order a just king could create , and was writing after the establishment of the monarchy . |
| 16 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 17 | A suitable window frame came off a skip behind a local double glazing merchant , and was incorporated into the studwork . |
| 18 | The facade survived intact and was incorporated in the rebuilding , which was completed in 1932 . |
| 19 | This was confirmed in the 1987 study and was acknowledged by the Authority , as we have seen . |
| 20 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 21 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 22 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 23 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | He came from a peasant family and was born near the city of Pyongyang in 1912 . |
| 25 | Lawrence came on as replacement and was thrust into the action immediately with some solid tackling as Bishop 's Stortford started to attack . |
| 26 | The Diploma in Industrial Administration was part of the first batch of national developments and was completed in the Summer of 1989 . |
| 27 | He joined the National Art-Collections Fund and was elected to the executive committee in 1912 . |
| 28 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |
| 29 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 30 | In 1973 Craig ( VUPP ) contested this constituency and was elected after the transfer of Paisley 's surplus . |