Example sentences of "and [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 2 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 3 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 4 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 5 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 6 | No er the most annoying thing about last night was when , when Martin was actually reviewing erm some of the topics that we had n't got right erm and Martin was prompting us with questions and we answered them ! |
| 7 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 8 | You have to remember I was only 19 when I first came here and people were expecting me to be totally in control . |
| 9 | Guy and Brian were discussing something of limited interest to women : something to do with commerce and the City . |
| 10 | The grey-brown circle suddenly became the face of a planet , and Ace was approaching it from space . |
| 11 | Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high . |
| 12 | A second later and Fabia was wondering what on earth she was thinking about . |
| 13 | She had guessed Robert and others were manipulating her as a chess piece in a game whose rules and ultimate aim were a mystery . |
| 14 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 15 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 16 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 17 | Jeanne , the Vitou 's only daughter was being prepared for evacuation , but my newly found knowledge in medicine and sociology was making me over optimistic . |
| 18 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 19 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 20 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |