Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connors had kept very quiet for Connors , while Kress and I were having our little friendly talk . |
| 2 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 3 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 4 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 5 | IN the middle 80s , snooker was booming and I was doing my best to cash-in on selling it around the world . |
| 6 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 7 | And she were doing it full-time and then she went she had children and then she went part-time . |
| 8 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 9 | And she came in and she was telling us all about it , and another woman who was there , she was the one who , she went over and sat beside here and said , Oh never mind and , You know we we we 'll get it sorted out , and , You 're better off without him . |
| 10 | She knew that the commission accruing to dealers was 4p a share , and she was calculating her own gain even before she closed the sale . |
| 11 | She was a successful and sought-after actress , happily married to professional footballer Lee Chapman and she was expecting their first , much-wanted child . |
| 12 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 13 | It was Kate 's first real outing with a celebrity , and she was finding it fun , particularly as he was gratifyingly attentive to her , even if it was out of self-interest . |
| 14 | Under the service agreement a small salary was payable to her each year and she was to provide her exclusive services to the company for five years . |
| 15 | There were nine men around the fire , and they were cooking their terrible food . |
| 16 | They 're really quite heavily bogged down , and they were to do them all , er one day at school . |
| 17 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 18 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 19 | She glanced sideways at him , and , realising belatedly that his eyes were open and he was watching her absorbed face , she flushed to the roots of her hair . |
| 20 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 21 | Naturally , he joined the Cooper Grand Prix team and he was to spearhead their revolutionary rear-engined attack on the World Championship . |
| 22 | She was sitting upright in bed and he was holding her close . |
| 23 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 24 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 25 | I got erm , Hand That Rocks The Cradle , Universal Soldiers and and he was offering me all Jean Claude Van Damm ones |
| 26 | Only an appeal by Gower to his loyalty persuaded him to stay , and he was to have his best game of the series . |
| 27 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 28 | I looked all round — saw that boy — that Dayglo sock bastard — he was running past the end of the cobbly bit by the café and round the corner — and he was carrying my purple stripy barrel-bag . |
| 29 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 30 | and it was costing us ten quid a month for the newspapers |