Example sentences of "and [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’
4 And was it on the main road that the one who was killed
5 After graduating he travelled to Paris , and was there during the 1848 rising .
6 Born in 1870 , he had served during 1897 as honorary Vice-Consul at Van in Asia Minor , and was there during the Armenian massacres .
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