Example sentences of "[was/were] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he was an eagle in flight to the North where his own kind were and no raven nor man would stop him now . |
| 2 | Alice gave her the bag in which Catherine 's disposable nappies were and a change of clothes and she put the two bottles of formula into the fridge . |
| 3 | However , the TNCs are still as strong as they ever were and the notion that the Nigerian government , let alone the average Nigerian , has any more control of the economy than before indigenization , is very doubtful . |
| 4 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 5 | Mulling over these gloomy thoughts , he climbed the stairs to the gallery where Tammuz' office and labs were and the corridor which led to the rooms he and Zambia had as living quarters . |
| 6 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 7 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 8 | The Arc Info maps , says Wright , helped solve issues such as how the proven play systems worked , what the exploration and development opportunities were and the impact of these on investment plans . |
| 9 | ‘ You know old Farmer Bolton 's place before it was burned down , you know , where the pig-sties were and the stink ? |
| 10 | It is said that a British ornithologist asked his aborigine guide what the birds were and the guide said , in aboriginese , ‘ good food ’ : I suppose we 're lucky he did n't say ‘ birds , you dickhead ’ . |
| 11 | And er it used to be quite event when you saw all the queue and , and er of course with Walsall Wood you 've got the room over the shop where the Guild room was and a rest room I think for the staff . |
| 12 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 13 | He had no idea where he was and no idea how far off the ground he was . |
| 14 | Maggie had no idea what it was and no notion of the time but as she opened her eyes every sense was alert . |
| 15 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 16 | I sat actually sitting talking and drinking and the er in the house , that 's where her wedding dress was and the chauffeur sitting beside and I think he went away laughing . |
| 17 | Erm so we decided that it was important to try and find some more formalised way of testing what er the market satisfaction was and the service we are providing . |
| 18 | Some of this must be because they are a generation that ‘ made shift ’ through the was and the depression . |
| 19 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 20 | Oh , they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service . |
| 21 | ‘ That is how my mother said it was and the history books tell the same story . |
| 22 | I felt very sorry for him , but there again , the way he was and the way he felt , he 's better off out of it . |
| 23 | No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret . |
| 24 | It is important to try to be clear about what exactly this force was and the nature of the challenge that it posed to British rule in India — for there was a profound difference between Gandhi 's perception of these things and that of the British . |
| 25 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 26 | You know , going , as if you were going to erm do you know where the erm the , the funny thing was and the Brow , Everton Brow , there was a |
| 27 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 28 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 29 | Yes , they knew where their hotel was and the bus driver was a laugh but they were outraged that Irish money was not ‘ taken here ’ . |
| 30 | And tt Jan was er was er wondering during last year and went on to hormone replacement therapy because she was and the doctor was a bit concerned about possible osteoporosis which is erm brittle bone |