Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] were [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 2 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 3 | And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 4 | And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it . |
| 5 | Each week , a comedian from the '50s or '60s would be wheeled in for cameo relief ( eg Jimmy Jewel , Peggy Mount , Arthur English ) as a cantankerous alcoholic old patient , and you were guaranteed one horrifying accident per 60 minutes . |
| 6 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 7 | I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week . |
| 8 | Charles Laubscher , who recalls : ‘ I was detailed with ‘ Tiger ’ Pain to give top cover to the squadron on the 20th. and we were allotted two of the new machines ( Mark IIs ) . |
| 9 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 10 | And they were congratulating one of them , what was the two names ? |
| 11 | Perhaps Betty had asked some people in and they were enduring one of those breaks in conversation , but the silence went on . |
| 12 | We have got good medical facilities , but as you just heard Samantha just saying , they 're destroying that as well , the only people who wanted water meters , is when houses were on ratable value and they were paying two hundred thousand pound for a house at large rates and the water rates was the same house . |
| 13 | And they were attacking one man , while a woman , presumably his wife or daughter , was crying by the side of the street . |
| 14 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 15 | Their nautical appearance immediately christened them Boats , and they were numbered 225–236 . |
| 16 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
| 17 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 18 | The old machines that were shown to us were very simple , but they were asking 7,000 baht for them . |