Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and
3 And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities .
4 So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as
5 I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time
9 It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ?
10 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 .
11 Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class
12 I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests .
13 After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food .
14 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
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 And you were allocated this house in The Chantry ?
18 and Jim was lawnmowing and you were doing hard labour with Matt
19 Further results showed that her immunoglobulins were low , particularly IgG with a value of 5.11 g/l , and she was given intravenous immunoglobulin ( Gammimmune-N , 25 g ) to aid her recovery .
20 bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just
21 In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion .
22 Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania
23 HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE .
24 I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket .
25 She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket .
26 But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there .
27 All patients received fat and water soluble vitamin supplements and none were taking taurine supplementation .
28 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 .
29 " 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 . "
30 I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week .
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