Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 2 | They were well looked after and were given plenty of beer , cigarettes and extras at Christmas time . |
| 3 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 4 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 5 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 6 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 7 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 8 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 9 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 10 | Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat . |
| 11 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 12 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 13 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 14 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |
| 15 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 16 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 17 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 18 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 19 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 20 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 21 | It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity . |
| 22 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 23 | Bigwig had raised his head and was supporting himself on his fore-paws alone . |
| 24 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 25 | At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table . |
| 26 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 27 | Then , with a nod in the direction of the railwaymen — ‘ Thanks for your assistance , and for holding up the train' — he had grabbed Shiona unceremoniously by the wrist and was dragging her towards the door . |
| 28 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 29 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 30 | She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet . |