Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , the only way you could do that would be if you had a till at one end and people bought whatever they wanted and were given a voucher and you walked down the other end and exchanged |
| 2 | They joined the German retreat in early 1943 , and were given a place of settlement in the Novogrodek area of Belorussia . |
| 3 | The means was to restrict the legal provision of credit to those who applied for it and were granted a licence . |
| 4 | They had contacted selected publishers to seek support for the platform and were forecasting a launch in the autumn with a consumer market focus at a player price of about £250 . |
| 5 | A four-month amnesty came into force on Oct. 13 allowing illegal non-EC immigrants to regularize their position , provided that they had been in the country for six months and were earning a living . |
| 6 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 7 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 8 | Three young men in cutoffs had colonized a triangular space and were flipping a Frisbee . |
| 9 | On the Saturday evening they were having a social and were to watch a striptease . |
| 10 | That they were n't having to give me a testimonial , which I would be entitled to soon , and were making a profit on my sale . ’ |
| 11 | Although worried about the consequences of their boycott , they went ahead and were offered a pay rise as a result . |
| 12 | Morpeth raised more than £500 and were offered a slot on three local radio stations to publicise Amnesty International 's concerns . |
| 13 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 14 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 15 | Just as we 'd closed the window and were breathing a sigh of relief there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 16 | I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise . |
| 17 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 18 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 19 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 20 | He became a county councillor , sat on the Gower Bench , served on innumerable committees ( including the governing body of the Church of Wales ) and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorgan in 1948 . |
| 21 | He became responsible for all of the Bruce family interests , including their right to the throne , and was appointed a Guardian of Scotland in the absence of his young uncle , David II . |
| 22 | He retired from his position as general manager in 1919 and was appointed a director of the company , but resigned later in the same year on his appointment as consulting mechanical engineer to the newly formed Ministry of Transport , a position he held until 1927 . |
| 23 | He joined LASMO in 1989 following the acquisition of Thomson North Sea where he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed a director of LASMO in January 1990 . |
| 24 | F. Alan Wedgwood has been a director of the Group since 28 November 1986 and was appointed a director of Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc on 15 June 1991 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She gave invaluable service to the Red Cross , St Dunstan 's and the Voluntary Aid Detachment , and was appointed a JP in 1951 . |
| 27 | Edward , Helen could see from his stance , was bored : he had his head tilted on one side and was watching a bird in a tree behind Peter Sidey 's left ear . |
| 28 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 29 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 30 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |