Example sentences of "and was [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 2 | Diminutive Mr Moynihan , now 36 , became an MP in 1983 and was appointed sports minister in 1987 . |
| 3 | He asked for and was sent Sketches of Anatomy for Artists ' Use , and struggled to teach himself the complexities of bones and muscles by endless copying . |
| 4 | He suffered from insomnia and was taking barbiturates . |
| 5 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 6 | One morning , when I put the lights on , the Lunar Wrasse had the Lionfish cornered and was taking chunks out of it . |
| 7 | She banged that drum when she came back , and was moving parents to centre stage while others were still thinking about what role they might have . |
| 8 | Four miles away , Francesca had already reached her own small Victorian house and was moving clothes from the dryer straight into a battered suitcase . |
| 9 | Before arriving in the Soviet Union , Holovich was recruited by the British espionage service and was given instructions for a contact — I do n't have to go into detail , these are matters available to me . |
| 10 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 11 | The captain of the Italian motor cruiser had reboarded his craft and was screaming orders in a cracked baritone . |
| 12 | She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest . |
| 13 | By 1368 he was also described as ‘ the Bishop 's Mason ’ and was granted lands by Bishop Thomas Hatfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | Luce awoke to discover a new day had dawned and was throwing streamers of sunlight , like bright yellow ribbons , across the dark polished floorboards . |
| 15 | The USA was negotiating a North American free trade arrangement ( NAFTA ) with Canada and Mexico [ see p. 38761 ] , and was discussing arrangements with other countries of the Americas . |
| 16 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
| 17 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
| 18 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 19 | By this stage the Committee for Science and Technology had twelve subject boards , and was approving courses in new subject and interdisciplinary areas , many described as of ‘ considerable industrial importance ’ — including for the first time instrumentation and control engineering , and computer systems engineering . |
| 20 | But she 's got about six different firms on the computer and was comparing notes . |
| 21 | The tendency for international capital flows to increase has been evident for some time , and was causing problems for central bank intervention in the final years of the Bretton Woods system . |
| 22 | Listening to Claire chattering about that old lunatic Tom Reynard while he pretended to be dozing and was framing sentences in his mind . |
| 23 | He said he had followed Mrs Knight into her bungalow at her invitation and was shown pieces of costume jewellery which he was not interested in . |
| 24 | She was no longer sure , but at least she had a job and was offered rides . |
| 25 | ‘ Charlie had managed to kindle a little fire of dry grass and was adding twigs one by one and I was squatting beside him . |
| 26 | Unwilling to accept this constraint , he went on to ask ‘ why not ? ’ ( again in written report ) and was informed reasons were never given ; the official line was simply to refuse all such requests . |
| 27 | Afterwards , she visited the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and was told surgeons there will soon be able to practise their skills using virtual-reality equipment . |
| 28 | Afterwards she visited the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and was told surgeons there will soon be able to practise their skills using virtual-reality equipment . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 30 | The ubiquitous Mosquito ( in its PR ) role ) had appeared early in the year and was recording details of damage inflicted by the night raids . |