Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken into hospital with high blood pressure the day after doing my last two pictures for the British Hairdressing Awards and Isha was born the following day . |
| 2 | The red army fought in the courts and Swindon were given a second chance in the 2nd division . |
| 3 | Annie and Chuck were having a huge row . |
| 4 | Jack and Alison were having a hasty conversation on the landing . |
| 5 | Enjoying their European success , Laura and Bernard were spending an increasing amount of time in France , which they had always loved . |
| 6 | No State , it was clear , was going to help the Papacy recover the Temporal Power ; meanwhile , bad relations with the governments of France , Italy and Germany were endangering the spiritual and material welfare of millions of Roman Catholics . |
| 7 | At this stage Pons was involved primarily with his job as departmental chairman and was following progress relatively remotely ; Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations . |
| 8 | By then , Westminster had merged with National Provincial and Wanless was offered a new job working in market intelligence for another King 's graduate , David Lomax . |
| 9 | Ed and Johnny were enjoying an unimaginative platter of boiled sprouts . |
| 10 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 11 | Clothes were strewn on the sofa and chairs and Faustina was dragging a silver lame belt along the carpet . |
| 12 | Hick pouched his fourth catch with the ease of a Hammond , and Pakistan were denied a 200 total . |
| 13 | Gurder and Angalo were having a blazing row when Masklin got back . |
| 14 | But clearly , by the late 1940s , an entirely new approach was required , and Blom was given a free hand to bring everything as up to date as possible . |
| 15 | Korean independence was thus liquidated and Korea was rendered an integral part of the Japanese empire . |
| 16 | This does not mean as some modern writers have assumed — that Richard and Philip were having a homosexual affair . |
| 17 | Benjamin and Edith were to have no fewer than nine daughters in all , three dying in infancy , and just one son . |
| 18 | They were all minors and Joseph was taking the normal step to protect their interests , for if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband . |
| 19 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 20 | Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ? |
| 21 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 22 | Killion and Kimberley were keeping the other Germans honest . |
| 23 | Both he and Fagan were outgrowing the proper age for coping with forward two-year-olds — hence the breaking and making of the Hunter class of horse they reluctantly put behind them . |
| 24 | Argentina and Brazil would go on to eliminate tariffs to Mercosur countries by the end of 1994 , while Paraguay and Uruguay were allowed an extra year to harmonize . |
| 25 | One hot summer afternoon Tony , John and Pip were cutting the long grass . |
| 26 | And Nils was planning a major operation on our engine . |
| 27 | Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch . |
| 28 | It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man , almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure . |
| 29 | The boot was now on the other foot in the Middle East where the Americans were the critics and Britain was shouldering the primary responsibility for the stability of the area . |
| 30 | When Auque and Normandin were released the previous November , Pat and Sheila had spoken out about their frustration on television . |