Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] was [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I just thought it all through and realised I was wrong .
2 ‘ I could n't talk and realised it was serious .
3 He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge .
4 When they tried to question him they received unintelligible replies and realised he was drunk .
5 Noel Wright , prosecuting , said : ‘ The defendant is an enthusiastic DIY man and admitted he was responsible . ’
6 Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm
7 I checked with Pike and found I was correct : according to custom and practice my job description formed a part of my contract .
8 Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts .
9 A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary .
10 Tom touched his cheek and found it was cold .
11 Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down .
12 Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua .
13 He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night .
14 The woman was reprimanded for " a heap of lies " and told she was entitled to nothing unless " we liked to give her daughter 's child a pair of shoes " .
15 I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine .
16 She looked at the clock and noticed it was twenty-past one — everyone was in now except Michael .
17 He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra !
18 But the court ruled it was clear that members of Lt Roos 's patrol had beaten members of the public , and added it was astonishing that they had escaped punishment .
19 Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends .
20 The count built a wall around the town and reckoned he was secure .
21 McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council .
22 She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour .
23 Owner-trainer John Hill and three racecourse vets checked the filly over and decided she was fit to run , but Atlantic Way could finish only third .
24 Violet saw the man 's face harden and decided it was better to give way on this occasion .
25 The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one .
26 He worked for a major oil corporation there called Pan-Global and felt he was privileged to be entrusted by his employer , the proprietor himself , with such a discreet mission .
27 He was backed by Walton colleague Daphne Hall , who said she could not see how anyone could fail to support it , and felt it was better to have the Naze under a management scheme .
28 Preston recognised this as a personal criticism and felt it was unjustified .
29 I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’
30 The Buddha went up a mountain and looked down on Samsara ( the mundane word ) and saw it was trivial .
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