Example sentences of "were [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , the extremities of the grass , where it dipped to meet the mudline , were slowly and silently being invaded by the dark water as the tide reached its zenith . |
| 2 | The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance . |
| 3 | We were jammed eight to a compartment , smoking , playing cards and drinking beer ; the lights were on and sleep was completely impossible . |
| 4 | On the fifth night he finally fell asleep when the electrodes were on and recordings were being made , and stayed asleep for two and a half hours until his wife woke him . |
| 5 | All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room . |
| 6 | The fairy lights were on and a machine was belting out smoke two frail pure white eight year old coach men stumbled out onto stage desperately trying to heave a massive structure around the stage , containing one very beautiful princess who seemed very heavy indeed . |
| 7 | The streetlights were on and I was almost there . |
| 8 | Cornelius noticed that the lights were on and the curtains drawn . |
| 9 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |
| 10 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 11 | In the beginning , as man developed agriculture and agriculture begat civilisation , animals were economically and ecologically essential parts of the overall enterprise . |
| 12 | In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice , Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond . |
| 13 | The Netherlands plan had also envisaged that full EMU could start when only six of the 12 states were economically and politically ready ( rather than seven or eight as proposed by others ) . |
| 14 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 15 | Derisively he added , ‘ And I 'm sure you were nicely and conventionally brought up . |
| 16 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I came out , all my friends were inside and my family did n't want me . |
| 18 | When they were inside and once he had cleaned up the cut , he said , ‘ I 'm getting a doctor . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm thinking I 'm sure you were Hannah because actually you were inside and they were outside , there 's like a door and the rest of the house between you ! |
| 20 | He recognised that many of the first and second generation of industrial urbanites were morally and socially disorientated — in a state of anomie or normlessness ( a sort of perpetual culture shock ) . |
| 21 | Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked . |
| 22 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 23 | ‘ We had hoped that the end of the year — 1992 — which is the first part of our financial year ( CGI ends its fiscal year on August 31 ) , would signal a recovery , but although the first two months — September and October — improved on the year before , they were followed by November and December , which were less and less good , ’ said Robert Mallet , president-director general of the group . |
| 24 | The British public , after years of sacrifice , were less and less inclined to tolerate prolonged austerity ; and , though in other fields the Labour Government was extremely successful in diverting resources away from consumption and towards investment and exports ( at considerable cost to its own political popularity ) , there were limits to the extent that this could be achieved in electricity . |
| 25 | At least part of the explanation of this was , however , the efficiency of the National Grid 's integrated programme of power station planning and operation , with which smaller private generating stations were less and less able to compete economically as the 1950s progressed . |
| 26 | Special interest groups , particularly in regard to roads , housing and the protection of amenities clashed with established practices of local government , and planning policies were less and less understood . |
| 27 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 28 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 29 | They were together and they were in love . |
| 30 | There was no way I could know just what passed between Mme G and her son when they were together and alone . |