Example sentences of "was [verb] and [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days of the Prize Ring were such a brutal business , fought under rules which enabled men to inflict terrible injuries on each other , and fights were fought to a finish when a man was downed and had been battered into insensibility . |
| 2 | A total of £165 was raised and has been sent to Romania Aid . |
| 3 | As for Mrs Dunstaple , she was so distraught that she no longer knew what she was doing and had been taken away , given a composing draught surreptitiously obtained from Dr McNab , and put to bed on her shelf in the pantry . |
| 4 | An apt description of Elizabeth 's cast of mind in the very years when her first biography was planned and written was given by Rudolf Steiner in 1900 . |
| 5 | Towards the end of 1986 an AEC was launched and has been running ever since . |