Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen ( 4.0 ) : Simon and me were babies . |
| 2 | Michel and I were cousins , not first cousins of course — ’ |
| 3 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 4 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 5 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 6 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 7 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 8 | She wanted to know all about the Tyrrell Society , of which Willy , Alan and I were members . ’ |
| 9 | Both he and I were members of the Committee when the report was produced . |
| 10 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 11 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 12 | Falconer — well , Giles , for he and I were friends — devised a scheme whereby one of our agents would use one of Paris 's most expensive whores to trap a leading member of the Luciferi . |
| 13 | ‘ Your mother and I were friends from our schooldays . |
| 14 | ‘ But Laz and I were partners . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Jean-Paul and I were lovers , it is true . |
| 16 | ‘ You know that Luke and I were lovers ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That Guy and I were lovers ? ’ |
| 18 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 19 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 20 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 21 | From that moment on , Ian and I were pals . ’ |
| 22 | Nigel , the old Charmer , and I were half-nelson 'd with mirth . |
| 23 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 24 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 25 | I moved off the dredger in nineteen thirty two and I was crane driving from nineteen thirty two till after the war . |
| 26 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 27 | Er as regards to the team that was gon na come down from London and I was Secretary of the Football Club at that time . |
| 28 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 29 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 30 | He was at the junio he was at juniors and I was playschool . |