Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks . |
| 2 | and were asked to say which word of each pair was masculine and which was feminine . |
| 3 | The companies were contacted directly and were asked to send their annual and interim reports . |
| 4 | All the representatives in Paris of foreign states were invited to witness the Spanish apology and were asked to inform their courts of it , while a medal was specially struck to commemorate the French triumph . |
| 5 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 6 | In April 1946 Otto Grotewohl , the SPD leader in the eastern zone , complied with the Soviet wish to unite his party with the Communists , who had also re-formed themselves in 1945 and were hoping to widen their appeal . |
| 7 | and were hoping to get somebody from Bishop 's Stortford I think it 's important to have a , and I 'm also going to ask Bob , the ambulance driver if he 's free to come , I think we can use the . |
| 8 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 9 | The three androids had fallen over , too , but they were still functioning , and were beginning to aim their blasters . |
| 10 | He could sense that his parents despaired of him and were beginning to put their efforts into his stronger rival and that soon … |
| 11 | In seeking to allay our respondent 's fears , we replied that we were aware of the problems and were trying to minimise them . |
| 12 | Witnesses said some of those killed had apparently blockaded the US embassy and were trying to storm it using their bare hands , stones and knives . |
| 13 | Witnesses said some of those killed had blockaded the US embassy and were trying to storm it using their bare hands , stones and knives . |
| 14 | Ernie 's companions seemed to think he 'd gone far enough and were trying to distract his attention when a newcomer pushed his way into the group . |
| 15 | ‘ Manfred and Gloria said they 'd met them and were trying to shake them off , ’ Mick replied . |
| 16 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 17 | All of us were working on no salary , just expenses , but we found nice facilities on 58th Street and were taught to charge everything . |
| 18 | Englishmen were afraid that France might be able to dominate Europe and were determined to hold her in check . |
| 19 | The president and his senior staff shared a fervent conviction that legislators , administrators and the national media were resolutely opposed to all that Richard Nixon stood for and were determined to prevent him from making a reality of his policy intentions . |
| 20 | The jury heard how Ferguson and Smillie collected two five-gallon drums of diesel from Oban railway pier on the day of the fire , 12 May last year , and were seen delivering it to Ferguson 's house . |
| 21 | Two robbers both with guns had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 22 | Two robbers , both with guns , had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 23 | They had spread out and were racing to capture him . |
| 24 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 25 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 26 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 27 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 28 | Presumably the English at the Spittal realised that something was amiss and were coming to see what . |
| 29 | Back in England when the 4th Scots Guards had finished ski training and were waiting to put what they 'd learned into practice , Charles had by no means forgotten events on the nursery slopes of Chamonix . |
| 30 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |