Example sentences of "and was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Substitute had turned from the window and was watching the Captain curiously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 . |
| 11 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 12 | His Mum had finished sweeping and was wiping the cooker . |
| 13 | He was then 40 , and was sharing the mill at Snape with Benjamin Britten . |
| 14 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 15 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 16 | Moreover , I was ( and am ) conscious of the strengths of a grammar-school tradition , and was enjoying the work of building on these foundations within a relatively secure system . |
| 17 | Christina felt herself relaxing with Elaine , and was enjoying the company of another female for the first time in weeks . |
| 18 | Smythe had dispensed with help and advice and was enjoying the writing , while the free speech folk had decided it was more appropriate for them to publish a cartoon balancing Oliver 's offensive one . |
| 19 | I put my conversations with Lou and Brenda from my mind , at least for the time being , and had switched on the WP and was enjoying the little moans and buzzes of its warming up , when there was a mighty banging on the door and there stood Hugo . |
| 20 | He was blocking her exit now and was enjoying the fact that she knew it . |
| 21 | Hasan had pressed his face to the glass in front of the cakes and was sniffing the fresh bread , a look of ecstasy on his face . |
| 22 | In an internal document issued on Dec. 14 and discovered by police during a raid in February , the leadership of ETA rejected arguments from within the organization to the effect that the armed struggle was lost , was senseless and was damaging the Basque nationalist left , and that ETA must face up to defeat . |
| 23 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 24 | The government 's policy goal was defined as being " to control government spending so that the tax burden does not subvert income-and job-creation , and to avoid using loans to finance consumption spending " ; a five-year programme of tax reform was under way and was to include the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) in October 1990 . |
| 25 | In December 1922 Ramsey took the scholarship examination of a group of colleges containing Magdalene and was given the top classical scholarship . |
| 26 | In 1932 she became a nun and was given the name Maria ‘ in memory of St Maria of Egypt who lived a life of penitence in the desert ’ . |
| 27 | White or pink stonecrop ( Sedum anglicum ) was considered to be a delicacy and was given the name , the prince 's or lord 's food , also known as the English stonecrop . |
| 28 | ‘ And I auditioned and was given the stage role , but I think Michael Crawford called them and said he wanted it , and they ousted me . |
| 29 | I introduced myself and was given the job of knitting a lot of maroon cardigans for stock . |
| 30 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |