Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 2 | The irises of his eyes were almost large enough to exclude the whites and they were coloured light green like grapes and flecked with gold . |
| 3 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 4 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 5 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 6 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , he saw the news of the Club and course as a good story and they were given generous coverage for many years . |
| 8 | They were all sat on the floor of one of the sparsely-furnished bedrooms , the curtains drawn , watching East Enders on a black-and-white telly , and they were eating Greek yoghurt out of a communal family-sized Sainsbury 's tub . |
| 9 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 10 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 11 | and other various tosspots who were sort of giving her pats on the back and they were making all sorts of slurping noises about her , were n't they ? erm salivating |
| 12 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 13 | ‘ Quite a few friends were starting families at that time and they were having real problems sorting out childcare , and I decided I 'd like to look at what opportunities there were for setting up in that field . ’ |
| 14 | And they were attacking one man , while a woman , presumably his wife or daughter , was crying by the side of the street . |
| 15 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 16 | No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea |
| 17 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 18 | on the telly the other night and they were showing this fellow scragging the kids in the kitchen , god and I thought oh , because they were all watching it , you know , oh they might ring them |
| 19 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 20 | But they were thrashed last week by Wolves . |
| 21 | Giles 's proposal to make them subservient to government agents was rejected , but they were given some responsibility for supervising the work of both the regular police and the headmen , who were now designated the ‘ rural police ’ . |
| 22 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 23 | But they were working longer hours . |
| 24 | Um around the middle years of the twentieth century there was ah a good deal of well people were spotting signs which would nowadays be taken as evidence of child sex abuse but they were giving other explanations for them . |