Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone was muttering names like Charles Bronson , Steve McQueen and James Coburn . |
| 2 | especially if it 's that horse out in Spain , cor his dick was dragging along the bloody floor were n't it and everyone was taking photos of it |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We were in training and everyone was having goal attempts . |
| 4 | And everyone was selling memoirs : |
| 5 | Because in the four days Doyle and me were following Latowa , he and Charlie only met twice — once for about thirty seconds , probably just to say hello , and then to go to the Cambridge Hotel . ’ |
| 6 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 7 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 8 | Ann and I were fishing Forbes Castle Water . |
| 9 | Whereas when you and I were buying houses it was oh it 's a long process and it ca n't be hurried . |
| 10 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 11 | Margaret and I were discussing Payroll computing options today . |
| 12 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 13 | In the bedroom upstairs his wife and I were making love slowly . |
| 14 | One night when Terry , Frank , Brian and I were playing cards as Tom nodded off to sleep , Frank exclaimed , ‘ Incandescent , shit ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 16 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 17 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 18 | At long last it was happening and I was receiving confirmation that the exotic and rare species , The Homosexual , existed somewhere else other than in my imagination . |
| 19 | off when we went bingo and I was smoking John started coughing and you think it 's got to be these fags cos you do n't normally cough |
| 20 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 21 | And I was thinking Shrimpy , you 're stupid ! |
| 22 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 23 | One day , when Diana and Mary were out and I was learning German , he suddenly said to me , ‘ I want you to learn Hindustani instead of German . |
| 24 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 25 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 26 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 27 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 28 | Again it was word of mouth : teachers told other teachers about us and I was getting offers to give talks left , right and centre . |
| 29 | It was my first night back and I was getting pains and everything . |
| 30 | ‘ It was about 5.30pm , pouring with rain outside and I was making Sophie 's tea when a preacher came to the door and broke the news , but like everyone in that situation you just do n't believe it . |