Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Next to Paul Theroux and me were two lady companions . |
2 | But I can remember when Richard Harris and me were skint students . |
3 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
4 | Szell and I were great friends . |
5 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
6 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
7 | The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started . |
8 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
9 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
10 | And I was six years or something away . |
11 | And I was fourteen years old before I touched a piano for the first time . ’ |
12 | Survival instincts took precedence , and I was all thumbs as I disentangled camera , binocular , rucksack and rifle straps from round my neck . |
13 | It was the most frightening moment of my life and I was icy calm . |
14 | Then we were staggering into a hospital casualty department and I was grateful Bunny was there — they can be dangerous places on a Friday night . |
15 | Disappointment followed , the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better . |
16 | The catches snapped open and I was left feeling annoyed that Frank really was that much younger than I. |
17 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
18 | I 'm saying that but I , went on holiday with Mary and I was three years older than Mary and mum said to me ooh look after her Mary ! |
19 | It was full of soldiers and of military police , and I was near despair . |
20 | and I was ten stone two |
21 | Your library fine was twenty P and yours was twenty P . |
22 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
23 | Which was surname and which was Christian name ? |
24 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
25 | So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army . |
26 | Eyeing her new-found companions sitting at her other side , and who were avid listeners to their conversation , he resumed wryly , ‘ And that within five minutes of you arriving anywhere you had the entire population at your feet , knew their life histories , their problems … ’ |
27 | Almost half the girls married in their teens and who were occupying council houses in their mid-20s had conceived their first birth before marriage ( 47 per cent ) , compared to 30 per cent of owner-occupiers , 14 per cent renting privately , and 9 per cent who were still living with parents ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
28 | And and who were these people ? |
29 | ‘ And who were these people ? ’ |
30 | ‘ And who was that Fernando ? |