Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential difference between Sam and me was the fact that I took life seriously . |
| 2 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 3 | We were very à deux , and I was the hoover and windolene queen . |
| 4 | And I was the engine of it all . |
| 5 | Now in this little booklet that I 've got about the er er the potted history of the Cosmopolitan Debating Society , it mentions a very brilliant man by the name of W H , now I was very friendly with him because he was th President of the I L P and I was the secretary . |
| 6 | I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’ |
| 7 | No — they were wallpapering , and I was the wall — they were papering over me ! |
| 8 | ‘ The reason they sacked me was because I joined the union and I was the shop steward . ’ |
| 9 | And I felt and I said I did not kill her and I was the murderer and Shameer said check hit me but she did n't it felt like a hit and you do n't accidentally do that do you ? |
| 10 | It was my first American-backed movie and I was the lead . |
| 11 | There was Lord Weymouth ( without shoes , of course ) John Berkeley , of Berkeley Castle , the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and Pat Smythe , one of my great sporting heroines when she took part in the Bideford Horse Show and I was the cub reporter covering the event . |
| 12 | She was pregnant , she said , and I was the father . ’ |
| 13 | And you were the kind lady who gave little Afgie the leprechaun , ’ she added with a warm smile . |
| 14 | . And she was crippled with rheumatism — she used to go with a stick , and she was the boss . |
| 15 | Her name was Amal , and she was the daughter of a shopkeeper in Riyadh . |
| 16 | Her stage name was Rose Pendennis and she was the daughter of Henry Alfred Kingwell , who had an export business in New Zealand . |
| 17 | Her real name was Rebecca Salmon and she was the daughter of Dan Salmon who owned the baker 's shop on the corner of Brick Lane . |
| 18 | ‘ And she was the friend you meant ? |
| 19 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 20 | Now their röles were reversed and she was the child . |
| 21 | Her name was Mokosh , and she was the sun 's foster-mother . |
| 22 | Her ex-husband used to beat her up and she was the mother of a teenage child with a severe visual handicap . |
| 23 | He married her in 1242 or 1243 , and she was the mother of his eldest son and heir , Hugh . |
| 24 | Perhaps I could have ignored Nonni 's theories , but I was very unsure of myself except in matters of political opinion , and she was the sort of woman who is strong because she has never questioned her fixed beliefs : a kind of older , more battered Sophie . |
| 25 | Here she was , past the prime of life it was true , but grumbling because others depended on her for their family traditions to be kept up , and here was Doris Smythe with no family and unable to do much for herself — and she was the sort of person who 'd always helped others when she was younger , Linda remembered . |
| 26 | David and June met and married when he was running his own funeral business and she was the florist |
| 27 | what time did you go , I can deal with the manager and she was the manageress , he 's the assistant , er , er , er , I says oh dear have I dropped you in it ? |
| 28 | In the second place she was naked not armed , she was lying not riding , and she was the heroine not the hero . |
| 29 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 30 | Er and they were the kind of people that sometimes found theirself in difficulties , at the end of this quarter , as it 's called , because Well it was n't everybody that could pay it . |