Example sentences of "[was/were] and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were and the women folk would have their haberdashery and the men were tin smiths . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And if he saw a sheep that should n't be where they were and the gentry about to come within days he would soon get them down . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some of this must be because they are a generation that ‘ made shift ’ through the was and the depression . |
| 14 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 15 | Oh , they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service . |
| 16 | ‘ That is how my mother said it was and the history books tell the same story . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret . |
| 19 | Very popular it was and the parents glad to have their kids taken off their hands . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | British gardeners thought it was and the RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers has now become a best seller . |
| 27 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 28 | 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 |