Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 2 | I find it difficult to conceive of a situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make an order positively requiring a doctor to adopt a particular course of treatment in relation to a child , unless the doctor himself or herself were asking the court to make such an order . |
| 3 | I wish we were playing them , or they were playing the Scousers/Arsenal/Man City even . |
| 4 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
| 5 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 6 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 7 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 8 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 9 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
| 10 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |
| 11 | Ma , Patrick and I were walking the dog |
| 12 | The typical Mediterranean wine-olive-wheat complex began , in the eighteenth century , an expansion and modification that were to continue , after the shocks of war , into the nineteenth and which were to transform the agricultural potential of Catalonia . |
| 13 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 14 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |
| 15 | You were enticed by the dark magicians into their palaces and their dark citadels and you were shown the powers and the sinisterly beautiful rewards of sorcery . |
| 16 | Furtwängler died in November 1954 and you were offered the orchestra . |
| 17 | So and you were working the variable we were working with is not X but T. |
| 18 | In their view , the District was meeting the criteria set out in Ashby 's Recommendation 6 and in the 1955 regulations quite admirably : was it not entitled to a higher proportion of grant-aid than those whose standards were poorer , whose students ' fees were lower and who were meeting the needs of their areas less successfully in relation to other providing bodies ? |
| 19 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
| 20 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
| 21 | Poor blighter was hanged and we were dancing the night away . |
| 22 | It was back in 1972 and we were testing the waters , talking about this new magazine we wanted to launch which would campaign for an end to world poverty . |
| 23 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
| 24 | And with a clearing and we were having the help of the students of course . |
| 25 | In short order I was to fly with ‘ Deemy ’ on Friday morning and we were to cover the 4,300 miles from Fairbanks to Irkutsk via Yakutsk in one day — about the same flying distance as from New York to London . |
| 26 | Dawn on Day Three and we were crossing the prairies . |
| 27 | We were in the 1st Div … it was the first game of the new season , and we were playing the newly promoted Swansea away . |
| 28 | Most of them came fro Blundell 's School and Castle Cary CC in Somerset , and they were styled the Devon & Somerset County Wanderers . |
| 29 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 30 | and they were singing the territory , hello darling , they were singing their territorial songs |