Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 2 | And I were the only boy , |
| 3 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |
| 4 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1520 Benjamin Daunbey and I were the proud occupants of a large manor house on the outskirts of Ipswich . |
| 6 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 7 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 8 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 9 | And I was a young men in my prime ! |
| 10 | And I was a new broom with a reputation for sweeping clean . |
| 11 | He was a local lad and already a star in clubland , and I was a second-year apprentice comic visiting the north-east for the first time and decidedly wary of its reputation . |
| 12 | And I was good Oh and I and I was a good player as well . |
| 13 | And I was a great fan of Hank 's . |
| 14 | Henry Compton was a good school , and I was a reasonable pupil — no cherub , but no devil either . |
| 15 | You were heir to a throne and I was a minor officer from a village you had never heard of . " |
| 16 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 17 | Allan just had to turn up , so the paper hinted , and I was a beaten man . |
| 18 | My favourite group was New Order , and I was a big fan of Depeche Mode and The Cure as well . |
| 19 | So the accent was no problem and I was the right age . |
| 20 | When I arrived Jules and Sherry were nowhere in sight , and I was the only performer without a day job as a singing teacher in Coventry . |
| 21 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 22 | " If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy , nothing else would matter in the whole wide world , " my mother would sing inappropriately . |
| 23 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 24 | The line went on into a big Jamaican area , and I was the only white left in a full carriage . |
| 25 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 26 | You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable , if you like , they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman , I was with him for twelve weeks . |
| 27 | Our then new young branch secretary came in to sort out our grievance before he left the yard , our grievance was sorted , and I was the new collection steward . |
| 28 | Her father John said : ‘ Carol looked beautiful at the wedding and I was the proudest dad in the world . |
| 29 | I remember them well ; they were blue leather and had four spikes and I was the proudest youngster alive in possessing them . |
| 30 | ‘ We first chatted on a roller skating rink , where he was chosen as the best boy skater , and I was the best girl . |