Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next to Paul Theroux and me were two lady companions . |
| 4 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 5 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 6 | Almost half the girls married in their teens and who were occupying council houses in their mid-20s had conceived their first birth before marriage ( 47 per cent ) , compared to 30 per cent of owner-occupiers , 14 per cent renting privately , and 9 per cent who were still living with parents ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
| 7 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
| 8 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 9 | The oven door was open , and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf . |
| 10 | Er and there were four crown post trusses or well no five crown port trusses , you see half of on there , half of one there and a whole one there . |
| 11 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 12 | She fetched the drinks and there were two tea bags in there , were n't there , instead of sugar . |
| 13 | Andy has also been successful with other players : he was with the American Tom Purtzer when he won the 1984 Phoenix Open , with Craig Stadler from the US when the ‘ Walrus ’ won the 1985 Swiss Open , and there were two World Cup triumphs for Andy and his man — an individual title with Englishman Howard Clark in the 1985 Cup , and a team title with David Llewellyn of Wales in 1987 . |
| 14 | it was amazing really there were one young man there from er , er London polytechnic and he was a very arrogant young man , er and there were all kind of things came out |
| 15 | If all jobs and workers were homogeneous and there were perfect information and perfect mobility of labour , then it is reasonable to suppose that all wages would be equal . |
| 16 | And there were other joiner over and Do you know what is ? |
| 17 | One entered the building — and there were other Corner Houses at Marble Arch and the Strand — via a large marble hall where the overpowering , but pleasant , smell of the delicatessen on sale there mingled with the warmth of Lyons tea being brewed all around . |
| 18 | Timber had been removed without nutrient replacement and there were major weed problems in the rice . |
| 19 | The snow showed no signs of melting ; it was piled at least four inches deep on her window ledge and against her windows , and there were deep bird tracks patterned across it . |
| 20 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 21 | The medical services , not expecting such large losses , were incapable of caring for all the wounded and there were insufficient ambulance trains to take the thousands of serious cases to base hospitals . |
| 22 | Instead , local legislation in various local authority areas imposed such obligations , and there were varying time limits as to flow soon before the date of the proposed procession notice was required . |
| 23 | There were similar demands for reform from the people - , and there were corresponding conservatism . |
| 24 | The bodies of these cars were carried on channel steel underframes and there were steel platform bearers . |
| 25 | As the Lollipops were finishing and preparing to go on tour , twenty-four Tiller Girls were in the Ziegfeld Follies and there were sixteen Sunshine Girls at the Globe Theatre . |
| 26 | There were no looped grabrail on the corner of the dash and there were typical Brush corner brackets supporting the landing half way up the stairs . |
| 27 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 28 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 29 | ‘ It was getting worse and there were dangerous cross winds on the Mull airstrip . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |