Example sentences of "were [verb] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee . |
| 2 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 3 | During this time updating and regular reporting procedures were developed and the necessary programs written . |
| 4 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 5 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 6 | On 24 May police stations were sacked and the stock exchange was set alight . |
| 7 | The swamps were drained and the pirates were chased out . |
| 8 | Care was taken to ensure that the River Garonne remained open to shipping all the way from Bordeaux to Toulouse ; swamps were drained and the forests lining the river banks were cleared . |
| 9 | The ex-Croydon & District cars reposing at Mitcham Road depôt were renumbered and the B.E.T . |
| 10 | The new buildings on the Convent site were brought gradually into use over the next five years as the planned refurbishments were completed and the School slowly expanded with each new mixed intake . |
| 11 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 12 | Long-range tanks were fitted and tested , guns were checked and the Hurricanes generally prepared for the flight from Benina ( near Benghazi ) to Malta . |
| 13 | Disbursements from an IMF standby credit arrangement and a World Bank structural adjustment loan were halted and the IMF announced the postponement of the completion date for Jordan 's economic restructuring programme from 1993 to 1995 . |
| 14 | Again beds were stripped and the bedclothes carried upstairs . |
| 15 | Three options were given and the basic tasks column was taken to indicate work that could only be done under supervision or instruction , or the repetitive work such as feeding . |
| 16 | The pots were heated and the essential oils rose in the steam and became lodged within the wool . |
| 17 | From September 1987 , the traditional ‘ block grants ’ to a cartel of National Education Centres were withdrawn and the market was thrown open to any supplier to compete for contracts . |
| 18 | it does n't who 's responsibility would it be to see that the old brochures were withdrawn and the new brochures were put on in there place ? |
| 19 | My instinct is to put all this down to the vitiating effect of the Thatcher years , when proper provisionalism , breadth , pluralism and doubt were banished and the harsh , amoral glitter of ends attained-by-whatever-means held sway . |
| 20 | The morning sky was blue as yet but storm clouds were gathering and the wind seemed on the change . |
| 21 | Despite the commercial success of this unit and the facility which it offered of training in a range of skills , places were limited and the site was inaccessible from the south of the district . |
| 22 | A number of peripheral sites for large-scale house building were designated but the policy commitment to the inner area was explicit : |
| 23 | The complaint that there is never a moment 's peace is countered by some nurses who say that such a system allows for a ‘ snooze hour ’ after lunch when no routine tasks were undertaken and the ward was as quiet as possible . |
| 24 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 25 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 26 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup Three estimates were received but the prices were prohibitive . |
| 27 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup Three estimates were received but the prices were prohibitive . |
| 28 | Over 20 entries were received and the joint entry by Cox and Duncan caught the eye of the judging panel , Don Maxwell , Hamid Khatib , Jim Caven-Atack , Joe Leghorn and Roger Walls . |
| 29 | The shoes were examined and the discrepancy between them noted . |
| 30 | The ears were examined and the presence or absence of fluid was noted before inspection of the case notes or pharynx . |