Example sentences of "and was [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 . |
| 2 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 3 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 4 | I put my conversations with Lou and Brenda from my mind , at least for the time being , and had switched on the WP and was enjoying the little moans and buzzes of its warming up , when there was a mighty banging on the door and there stood Hugo . |
| 5 | Hasan had pressed his face to the glass in front of the cakes and was sniffing the fresh bread , a look of ecstasy on his face . |
| 6 | In an internal document issued on Dec. 14 and discovered by police during a raid in February , the leadership of ETA rejected arguments from within the organization to the effect that the armed struggle was lost , was senseless and was damaging the Basque nationalist left , and that ETA must face up to defeat . |
| 7 | The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and was extubated the next morning . |
| 8 | It appeared that a German S.P. gun had joined the snipers and was lobbing the occasional shell into the vicinity of the orchard . |
| 9 | From the restrictions placed on and was to emerge the familiar Phillips curve : . |
| 10 | The skipper was up and was reading the state-of-the-art technology with which the Nicholson was refitted after every Boat Show . |
| 11 | She came to the notice of Guess ? , the American jeans company , and was made the central focus of their international campaign . |
| 12 | About 11 p. m. he was aware that the wind was getting up and was buffeting the wooden signalbox . |
| 13 | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( The General Register Office in St Catherine 's House , London ) A central register of births , deaths and the solemnization and registration of marriages , was begun on 1 July 1837 and was called The General Register Office . |
| 14 | The new school was opened in 1927 and was called the Central School and the new road was named Staveley Road , which was lined with flowering cherry trees , a great attraction for visitors every year during blossom time — one of the more notable visitors each year was the late Queen Mary , consort to the King at that time , George V. |
| 15 | The mayor of Tamworth was there to officiate the opening of the facilities , and was encouraging the younger generation to help the environment by recycling . |
| 16 | Shelley had already gone to the patient and was holding the swollen ankle . |
| 17 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 18 | Outside the university , in July 1915 he became a chairman of the Glasgow munitions tribunal , but he proved ill-suited to handling its rowdy proceedings and was dismissed the following year . |
| 19 | His Essay towards a New Theory of Vision was published in 1709 , and was followed the next year by his master-work , A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge . |
| 20 | Apollinaire , who at the time was fascinated by the interrelation of the arts , and was exploring the visual possibilities of poetry in his Calligrammes ( for which one of the original titles was Moi aussi je suis peintre ) , was inspired by Delaunay 's paintings Les Fenêtres to compose , late in 1912 , his poem of the same name , in which the means are to a certain extent analogous . |
| 21 | While there was still the quota of run-of-the-mill assignments on the SMH , he quickly established himself and was offered the better jobs . |
| 22 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 23 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |
| 24 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
| 25 | She was almost hidden behind a display of dolls and puppets , and was painting the facial features on an exotic looking doll . |
| 26 | Johnstone shot to fame as a 16 year old when he scored the winning goal for Rangers in the 1970 Cup Final against Celtic and was voted the Scottish Player of the Year in 1978 , the year of the abortive World Cup campaign in Argentina . |
| 27 | He had mounted the Dragoon 's horse and was leading the tired mare by her reins . |
| 28 | He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less . |
| 29 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 30 | Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage . |