Example sentences of "and [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And were you in a union of any sort ? |
| 2 | He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse . |
| 3 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 4 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 5 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 6 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 7 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 8 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 9 | After graduating he travelled to Paris , and was there during the 1848 rising . |
| 10 | Born in 1870 , he had served during 1897 as honorary Vice-Consul at Van in Asia Minor , and was there during the Armenian massacres . |