Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the article very interesting , & I was glad to be reminded of the pictures . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 3 | yes , well is there any more you want to say on that , is er , er , er , subject to Mr as you say of course , erm I just simply wanted to know erm so that I can have a , a , a look , erm at what on one view , erm might be the , the case , it might clear be the conclusion that you er incorrect in or partially incorrect or I was unable to answer all the questions er at this stage |
| 4 | or I was frightened , or my wife was pregnant , |
| 5 | Sometimes they did things to you though , it was either that or you were frightened to death , I 'm not quite sure which . . |
| 6 | When that happens , it will be possible for anyone who needs an interpreter to contact one by telephone and know that , when the interpreter arrived , he or she was competent and worked to a nationally recognised code of professional practice . |
| 7 | He or she was poorest when a child when the maternal family had most dependents , in early middle life after marriage and the arrival of young children and again in old age . |
| 8 | The sinner is thereby declared righteous , not because he or she was innocent of the charges brought against them , but because of the righteousness which belongs to Christ and is bestowed on them . |
| 9 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 10 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 11 | It stated that anyone who moved into a property valued at less that £10 a year could be sent back to the place where he or she was last legally settled if they were likely to become chargeable to the poor rates . |
| 12 | Thus , if an individual shareholder sustained loss while relying on negligently prepared accounts , whether by selling or retaining shares or by purchasing additional shares , he or she was entitled to recover his or her loss . |
| 13 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
| 14 | I ca n't see singing in the party Debbie 's daughter the one that comes round with her sometimes she 's er she went into hospital on Tuesday er er Monday that 's right , she had operation Tuesday for her tonsils , come out yesterday or she was supposed to come out yesterday . |
| 15 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 16 | Either they were decadent , champagne swilling , cocaine-sniffing sex maniacs , or they were stuck-up , toffee-nosed , pompous and out of touch with ordinary people . |
| 17 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 18 | They had to perhaps give up their pots and pans , or they were supposed to . |
| 19 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 20 | Either it was neutral — all purposes — and a guaranteed damper on a special outfit ; or it was fun — zany — and over-the-top for everyday . |
| 21 | And it 's obviously that one was n't , just did n't want it or it was dead or something and they just left it . |
| 22 | Or he was bored . |
| 23 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 24 | But people tended to be afraid of him or he was afraid of them . |
| 25 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 26 | ‘ Basically , the thing that went down between Jon and me was more of a band kind of thing than anything really personal . |
| 27 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 28 | Next to Paul Theroux and me were two lady companions . |
| 29 | But I can remember when Richard Harris and me were skint students . |
| 30 | As I say , next to Paul and me were these two ladies obviously enjoying every mouthful of their meal . |