Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bacon and Hobbes were not alone in these ideas . |
| 2 | The book was open at Pythagoras ' discovery about the relative lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle , and Hobbes was amazed by Euclid 's proof of this complex idea . |
| 3 | Soon her aunt went to get the midday dinner , taking Victoria with her , and Melanie was left in charge . |
| 4 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 5 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 6 | There was a rough , unshiftable pain where Charlie Singer had landed his punch , and Pascoe was drinking whisky to take the edge off it . |
| 7 | It was after the finding that the real work began , and Pascoe was not a man given to anticipating events . |
| 8 | A bus link between Welshpool and Shrewsbury was in operation over the weekend of 26th-27th January due to construction work on the A5/A49 Shrewsbury bypass . |
| 9 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 10 | I was taken into hospital with high blood pressure the day after doing my last two pictures for the British Hairdressing Awards and Isha was born the following day . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Poland and Czechoslovakia were refusing to allow the transit of Soviet military equipment being brought back to Moscow from Soviet installations in eastern Germany . |
| 12 | A friendship treaty between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia was initialled on Oct. 3 by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin , and his Czechoslovak counterpart , Jiri Dienstbier . |
| 13 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 14 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 15 | And although Modigliani and Beatrice were deeply embroiled , the early enchantment was over . |
| 16 | The Japanese Ministry of Education 's National Institute of Fusion Science says that its NEC Corp SX-3 Model 24 supercomputer successfully fulfilled all the requirements specified in the initial contract bid : the contract was concluded last June , and was the subject of a challenge by Cray Research Inc late last year , and Cray was permitted to observe the operation of the new computer ; according to the Nikkei Industrial News , Cray complained that it was unable to obtain sufficient data on hardware issues such as NEC magneto-optical installed with the SX-3 , which NEC claims are the fastest in the world , and on the ultra high-speed HIPPI channel linked to them ; on the software side , Cray said that it was not able to obtain information on the efficiency of the automatic parallelising function ; for its part , NEC announced simply that the supercomputer was in full operation . |
| 17 | A mug 's game , because her mind was blurred and Jessica was far too intelligent , and caught her drift immediately . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |
| 19 | Another difference between Nikol'skaia and Roslavl' was the obvious greater isolation of the former , although it was nearer to the guberniia capital . |
| 20 | Tufnell persuaded Shoaib to misjudge a forward prod , and even if the figures of Mallender and Pringle were fairly predictable , the amount of turn generated by Tufnell and the burst of speed from Malcolm kept English hopes alive at 214 for 4 . |
| 21 | Last night Charlotte , 18 , of Meadow View , Neasham Road , Darlington , told how her brother Jason and Pringle were best friends until a row about Leanne . |
| 22 | In the old days Luxor and Aswan were favourite winter haunts of a wealthy and leisured class of Europeans . |
| 23 | Bodie and Doyle were hard , and looked hard . |
| 24 | On the fourth day of the new surveillance , Bodie and Doyle were woken early by Control , and summoned to a briefing session from Cowley 's personal assistant . |
| 25 | You and Doyle were following Latowa , the only student we knew of with any sort of modus operandi . |
| 26 | But before he could move there was a click and Doyle was starting back towards the camera . |
| 27 | The next second , the door swung open and Doyle was standing in the doorway , with a tray in his hands , looking at them both . |
| 28 | It was a bright , crisp dawn , and Doyle was hopeful of a bright , crisp day , without rain , and without the freezing winds that had made the previous days so miserable and debilitating . |
| 29 | Lists of ‘ intolerable ’ local leaders of Party , Labour Front , and NSV were also rumoured to have been drawn up . |
| 30 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |