Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Western Europe , old nations had rebuilt themselves , economically and militarily , and were increasingly combining their resources . |
| 2 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 3 | They collected their horses from the stables and were soon pounding their way back up the cobbled streets of Edinburgh to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 4 | Russell interviewed sixth form pupils in the Bradford area during 1982 , and amongst other things commented that ‘ it was disturbing to discover the number of boys who were reluctantly studying the subject mathematics at A level , and were not enjoying it ’ . |
| 5 | This time , however , they were under commanders who were soldiers , not just high-born magnates , and were not underestimating their foes . |
| 6 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 7 | Having exhausted their historic potential , Gorbachev went on , the major capitalist countries had decided to accelerate the arms race and militarism of all kinds , and were deliberately preparing their populations for nuclear war . |
| 8 | The beasts had obviously picked up their scent and were now following their trail . |
| 9 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 10 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 11 | The laughter had subsided , the ladies were folding the coat and dress and were about to lay it on a tissue-papered bed in a cardboard box , when Agnes said , ‘ What size shoes does she take ? |
| 12 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 13 | Love the ultimate four letter word and were about to use it all over your television screen . |
| 14 | Two of his attackers followed him and caught him and were about to drag him back out into the street when Zeinab came down the stairs . |
| 15 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
| 16 | For example , if the ship had a 5 degree list and was badly leaking it would be totally unseaworthy and this would be a breach of a condition enabling the hirer to repudiate the contract . |
| 17 | Mrs. Mott was wearing her outdoor coat and was clearly leaving herself . |
| 18 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 19 | I managed to scrounge some tobacco at Brigade H.Q and was soon handing it over to the Frenchman . |
| 20 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 21 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | He was pleased with this phrase of the Captain 's and was evidently storing it up for his National Service boys . |
| 23 | He had his hand on her arm and was evidently asking her to do something . |
| 24 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 25 | Whereas I scurry aimlessly from this to that , thought Alix , as she drove through the dark evening : they block one path , I try another , and so it goes on , thought Alix , who at times thought no such thing , and was not thinking it now with much conviction . |
| 26 | Wickham had seen the initial reaction and was not to forget it . |
| 27 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 28 | He jogged easily back to his apartment , to snatch some breakfast , and was just passing his own car when Control made contact with him again through the bulky R/T he carried . |
| 29 | And er and the sparrow started to get better and er it was starting to fly a peedie but again and was just getting its strength back . |
| 30 | I went up to his suite at the Monogram and was just opening my sample case when , imagine my surprise … ’ |