Example sentences of "and was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 2 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 3 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 4 | It was withdrawn on 18 December 1979 and was cut up at Doncaster on 2 February 1980 . |
| 5 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 6 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 7 | His sidekick froze , and was cut down by fire from all quarters . |
| 8 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 9 | She travelled via Canterbury to London , where she spoke ‘ boldly and mightily ’ against the vicious , did a good deal of sobbing and crying , and was turned out of several churches . |
| 10 | She raised the barrel skywards , and was tumbled over by a breaking wave . |
| 11 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 12 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 13 | Stephen Morrow played at left back against Albania and was singled out for praise by Bingham . |
| 14 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 15 | But he immediately disagreed with the producer about the politics of the show , and was sent back to the Science Unit . |
| 16 | I got a sentence and was sent back to Styal . |
| 17 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 18 | Though popular with his contemporaries , and a fine sportsman , gaining a tennis half-blue at Cambridge , Horne did not have a spectacular academic career and was sent down in December 1927 . |
| 19 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 20 | The questionnaire was piloted in a number of institutions in Scotland in May 1985 , and was sent out in final form in July 1985 to every state higher education institution in the UK offering teacher education courses . |
| 21 | When trade was good , Brookhouse expanded and thrived and when times became hard , it lost value and was leased out to many different tenants . |
| 22 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 23 | Apparently the club lost its license and was shut down after a series of lawsuits stemming from car accidents involving drunk punters — and under American law , bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local beak of those people are later involved in accidents . |
| 24 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 25 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 26 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 27 | The parcels carrying service proved unsatisfactory and was given up on 31 December 1911 . |
| 28 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 29 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 30 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |