Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild . |
| 2 | ‘ We came off the M4 and suddenly there was this maniac in the middle of the road , flagging us down . |
| 3 | We were eating off silver plates and suddenly there was this toad . |
| 4 | You see if There is going to be a war , and God 's people had also to be warriors and so there was that element of religion as well that that we had to be trained as warriors for the Lord . |
| 5 | In the period after 1945 the Liberals were at a very low ebb and had significant support only in rural areas of Scotland , Wales and South-West England where industrial development was largely absent and so there was little trade union activity . |
| 6 | And so there was this campaign to persuade women to change . |
| 7 | And so there was this sort of propaganda campaign that was done through advertising to insist that women should n't have off days any more . |
| 8 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 9 | And so there was another mystery . |
| 10 | It was the school 's belief that the creation of special units would not solve the behavioural problems which we encounter and furthermore there was little likelihood of re-integration into mainstream schooling ( a view largely substantiated by the available evidence of many of the existing units ) . |
| 11 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 12 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 13 | Others , however , saw the N.D.D.S. in a different light and role , and soon there was internal strife within the Society which tore it asunder in 1885 after a general meeting had been held in London without Paul 's knowledge . |
| 14 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 15 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 16 | Then and later there was some murmuring : what was a saint who had lived and died in the Holy Land doing in Burgundy ? |
| 17 | And probably it was cold weather they would have two or three coats er you know . |
| 18 | Of course , one time his reflexes had been off , and now he was recycled organs . |
| 19 | And now there was another doubt : the new element which Surere had introduced — contact with the ghost of the dead king — was not only the one which had triggered Huy 's decision to tell Merymose all he knew ; but also the one which might exempt Surere from any blame . |
| 20 | Thanks to Emma 's years of extreme beneficence , Rachaela had managed to save a little , and now there was some interest which would tide her over , perhaps until the new year . |
| 21 | And then there was that chapel and the kneeling . |
| 22 | And then there was that holiday at the six-bedroomed , six-bathroom pink villa in Marbella for which Mona paid $20,000 in readies . |
| 23 | And then there was that night just before the murder when William came to him with his plan . |
| 24 | I can still see myself sitting there , relaxed and comforted by the warm drink , and then there was that moment when I decided I would resign . |
| 25 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 26 | Well she does n't like M C Hammer , he was on , and then there was one week with Germans on it and it was , erm , it 's a German group that used to be popular and have n't done a song for ages . |
| 27 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |
| 28 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 29 | I mean , Mrs 's son was a cabinet maker and the boss 's son was there and then there was another Paul . |
| 30 | And then there was another gang fifteen to eighteen , and then another gang eighteen to twenty three . |