Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon glanced round at Tony , the owner 's son , who had stopped reading his comic and was watching them both , curiously . |
| 2 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 3 | He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls . |
| 4 | He felt tired and was finding it difficult to think straight . |
| 5 | And was exonerating him appropriate anyway ? |
| 6 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |