Example sentences of "and [noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life goes on and Will was busier than ever . |
| 2 | As a trainer , I have found that the brightest learners ( and the best , funniest and most communicative partners ) were not domestic horses , whose natural ability has been stunted , but wild ones in which the capacity for learning and communicating was rich and well developed . |
| 3 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 4 | Hoomey 's thin arms and legs were hard and gristly ; he was getting more like Nails every day . |
| 5 | The traditional system suppliers such as VBS with their Beacon system and Genigraphics were few and far between while Matrix , now part of Agfa , was the dominant supplier of medium-priced film recorders . |
| 6 | So Connor declared his feelings at last , and in due course he and Ruth were married and now , almost a year later , she was going to have his child . |
| 7 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |
| 8 | The patriarch 's power over his wife and offspring was absolute and often rigorously exercised . |
| 9 | He gave me the good news that Elizabeth and Ernest were safe and well . |
| 10 | In the rural areas , people could scrape by , thanks to what they grew themselves , but , in the towns , the queues for food and fuel were endless and often unrewarded . |
| 11 | Her fingers and toes were chilling and slowly and almost imperceptibly the mist settling on her fur collar was turning a frosty white . |
| 12 | I had the honour and privilege of being one of the veteran marchers , and the cheering and applause was unbelievable and very emotional . |
| 13 | His face and hands were white and very wrinkled , but any signs of extreme age stopped just below his jawline and just above his wrists . |
| 14 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 15 | TODAY 's exclusive revelations that the couple were not sharing one bedroom at the city 's Hyatt Hotel came as palace aides tried to insist Charles and Diana were closer than ever . |
| 16 | For Friedman , models which portrayed policy makers as having the power to choose from among differing combinations of inflation and unemployment were fantastic and potentially tragic exercises in self-delusion . |
| 17 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 18 | A clear head and diplomacy were vital as well as endless patience . |
| 19 | I tested the springs as best I could , but I weighed under seven stone and Otto was tall and well built . |
| 20 | On those occasions when June was unable to accompany him to a meeting or activity , David would always ensure that she and Judith were alright and never failed to keep in touch . |
| 21 | In the Near East Italian remained until as late as 1820 or so the most important diplomatic language , though there interpreters and translators were indispensable as nowhere else . |
| 22 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |
| 23 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |
| 24 | The music-hall and vaudeville were transitional as really was all nineteenth-century popular culture . |