Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1805 the firm of Boulton & Watt were selling their first commercial gas plants . |
| 2 | The film Scandal was being hyped through the papers at the time , and reminded everybody ( everybody in newspapers and public relations , anyway ) of those dear dead days of yore when Christine Keeler and co were weaving their sexual spider 's webs from Defence Minister to Jamaican playboy via Russian spy . |
| 3 | Employees and employers were to decide their own bargaining mechanisms in the form of individual or collective contracts , which could prohibit strikes and lockouts , and would be enforceable in the courts . |
| 4 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 5 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 6 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 7 | Soon Jaq and Meh'Lindi were donning their stout suits of power armour and Grimm his smaller version of the same , while Googol disdainfully assisted Moma Parsheen into his own suit , his lips curled , as if he was packaging excrement . |
| 8 | Friends and relatives were comforting her stunned family yesterday . |
| 9 | They were very clean and tidy , and Phyllis was wearing her prettiest dress . |
| 10 | He and Jordan were conducting their own ritual away from the group . |
| 11 | England began slowly , and then as Gatting and Gooch were accelerating they both fell in quick succession . |
| 12 | On cue , the rowing boat appeared from around the coastal bend and in it two topless dykes roaring and cheering were urging their little craft into the cove . |
| 13 | Behind us , Carlssen and Harley were having their own private battle . |
| 14 | ‘ He was speaking quietly , and MacQuillan was giving him all his attention . |
| 15 | With plenty of time to get ready , Sophie and Joanna were looking their best when they drove to Edward 's palatial house . |
| 16 | The next thing she had known , Louise and Miriam were wrapping her unclothed person in a clean towel while , not far away , the Padre was discussing religious matters with Harry and Fleury . |
| 17 | In a much earlier article , both Gedge and Charman were asked their proverbial ‘ miscellaneous likes ’ . |
| 18 | Mum wore a pretty blue dress and Dad was wearing his best suit . |
| 19 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 20 | African nationalists and white politicians , housewives and students were putting their best thinking to the task and seeking the guidance of God together . |
| 21 | Lilian was in her second childhood and Harriet was expecting her second child , which she secretly despised . |
| 22 | As we have seen , by this time the traditional and often puritan belief in the virtues of abstemiousness and moderation was finding it hard to resist the reality of achievement , but they were still regretted . |
| 23 | And so Beth allowed herself to be taken at an awkward pace along the wharf and on to where David and Cissie were saying their final farewells . |
| 24 | But Charles was securing his own interests rather than those of the Pope , and proceeded with the marriage despite every threat and protest . |