Example sentences of "and was [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She gave invaluable service to the Red Cross , St Dunstan 's and the Voluntary Aid Detachment , and was appointed a JP in 1951 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He took the natural sciences tripos in 1877 with first-class honours , and was appointed an assistant demonstrator . |
| 9 | His grandson Edmund [ q.v. ] became Baron Hammond and was appointed an honorary brother of Hull Trinity House , thus renewing the family link with this institution . |
| 10 | In 1975 , he helped to found a new anti-EEC party , Scottish Conservatives Against the Treaty of Rome , and was appointed an honorary vice-president along with his then fellow Scottish Tory MP , Teddy Taylor , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 13 | The Substitute had turned from the window and was watching the Captain curiously . |
| 14 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 15 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She wrote to the company at Stranraer and was sent the pack which listed 55 jobs from 34 general on-board and shore staff to three senior craftsmen , with wages ranging between £9,360 and £13,000 . |
| 21 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 22 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 23 | Mervyn had his back to them and was getting a bottle of sherry and some glasses out of his private cupboard . |
| 24 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 25 | Mr Anderson had also claimed to investigating officers that the woman told him she had had three Aids tests and was taking a contraceptive pill . |
| 26 | She had smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for six years and was taking no medication . |
| 27 | Entry into this trial ( as opposed to the SOLVD treatment trial ) required that the patient had no symptoms and was taking no treatment for heart failure . |
| 28 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 29 | Swire Sugden had arrived and was taking an aperitif with Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke in the drawing-room . |
| 30 | Beneath the pad he found the small entry wound ; the larger exit hole had gone unnoticed beneath the man 's leg and was draining the lifeblood from him . |