Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were already two grown-up sons from the first marriage ; these sons were twenty or more when Sigmund was born . |
| 2 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 3 | Bedford 's Howe was an early probationer and just before Hackett was sent down , Beckett , his prop , was admonished for riotous behaviour . |
| 4 | She had said it was not her husband , but she was feeling more and more that d'Urberville was physically her husband . |
| 5 | Peter was feeling irritable , partly because Joe 's putative success contrasted with his own failure to acquire a girlfriend , and partly because Jill was reputed to be hot stuff , a chick who positively demanded to go all the way . |
| 6 | And partly because York was going down the plughole a bit in the fourteen fifties as well . |
| 7 | And also because Daniel was encouraging Elisabeth to learn to play the lyre and cittern that Horst had recently acquired in Italy . |
| 8 | Now , the RD 's electronics is where things get a bit tricky , and probably where Gibson were ahead of the average bassist of the time . |
| 9 | Everything was done calmly and carefully and Jasmine was progressing nicely under saddle — until the day a different coloured saddlecloth was used . |
| 10 | Sarah and Maureen were now close friends and spent a lot of time together , and now that Anne was at home , the friendship between her and Sarah was resumed as strongly as ever . |
| 11 | After all , even though 10 was really only a five as a movie , and even though Arthur was an asshole , it 's pretty easy to think fondly of these made-to-Moore middle-age farces . |
| 12 | Harvey 's hunger got the better of him only fifty yards down the street and even though Signe was keen to go downtown Harvey had his way . |
| 13 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 14 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 15 | Then she started swinging her round and round her head , faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling , ‘ I 'll give you pigtails , you little rat ! ’ |
| 16 | Firstly , would you see any problem with that under a led government directly and secondly if Rupert were forced to sell off either some of his stake in B Sky B or some of his newspaper interests er , what would be your attitude to er , buying ? |
| 17 | She phoned Meg again and told her she was so silly , she 'd made a muddle with the dates of two concerts , and it would be perfectly all right for them to come tonight but only if Meg was absolutely sure it would n't be too much trouble , it was so sweet of her … |
| 18 | But soon after John was selected as the prospective Cheltenham candidate , the Taylors concluded that there were too many pressures to introduce a new baby . |
| 19 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 20 | It was possible , but now that Siang was dead he would never know . |
| 21 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 22 | But even though Marseille were satisfied with a point , the sheer reserves Rangers displayed means they can not be discounted , in a group which does not appear to have an outstanding team . |
| 23 | But even if Lenin was correct in his analysis of the capitalist-imperialist roots of the First World War , by the 1950s and 1960s the capitalist global system and the Third World had both changed so much that many Marxists felt the need to generate new theories to explain what was happening and to show the way forward from a political point of view . |
| 24 | ‘ But even if Riddle was the child 's father , to shoot him would be over-reacting , would n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | I know absolutely nothing about P Way but then as Norman was speaking , I realized that perhaps I could put a few ticks in . |
| 26 | But then when Sean was about fourteen months I could n't take any more and I 'd just do it my way , and I 'm glad I did . |
| 27 | Miguel often went away for hours on end , but never when Jose was there . |