Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
5 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
6 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
7 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
8 | Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career . |
9 | Plots of land were provided where houses could be built near the coast and it was hoped that fishing would become the occupation of former crofters ; it was the beginning of the villages . |
10 | Er i and it was given that image by pointing the cameras at at at the flats , and then spieling off the crime figures for the whole subdivision . |
11 | In the meantime , a search for a suitable building site had been carried out and it was decided that ground at Leith being prepared before the war for the Western Harbour extension was ideally suited for the purpose . |
12 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
13 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
14 | The tenant died within nine months after the grant of the council house tenancy and it was held that section 87 did not protect the defendant . |
15 | The defendant thought that he was being attacked when he acted , and it was held that self-defence was available to him . |
16 | Mr referred to the provisions of the Data Protection Act , and it was agreed that permission would not be given . |
17 | Discussion took place over Korea and it was agreed that trusteeship was the appropriate policy to adopt . |
18 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
19 | Zurich , in the Middle Ages , was Switzerland 's most important city , and it was to stay that way . |
20 | Means of relief were sought , and it was found that fever , produced artificially or by deliberate infection with malaria , produced remissions . |
21 | During the summer months climbing charges rose considerably and it was rumoured that climbing access would be curtailed , due , in part , to malicious damage to gates and fencing ( although there was no proof that this was done by climbers ) . |