Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 2 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 3 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 4 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 5 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 6 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 7 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 8 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 9 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
| 10 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 11 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 12 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 13 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 14 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 15 | And you were allocated this house in The Chantry ? |
| 16 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 17 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 18 | We had increased our fibre intake and we were eating more fish , fruit and vegetables . |
| 19 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 20 | " We began with history , and covered the early years of Queen Elizabeth , and we were to have some music practice , but I persuaded Miss Powers to leave that until later this afternoon , lest it disturb you . " |
| 21 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 22 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 23 | Anything and everything was worn these days the saleswoman urged . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 |