Example sentences of "he [was/were] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 2 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 3 | Endill tried to see where he was but it was too dark and he waited , not daring to move , for the Headmaster to put on the lights . |
| 4 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 6 | Perhaps a mature perception of this fact lay behind the rather surprising acquiescence of most Norman lords in William the Conqueror 's succession as duke in 1035 , though he was but a child and a bastard . |
| 7 | The young man ( he was but sixteen years old at the time ) was fighting for justice , for the claim of his father , Edward III , to the throne of France . |
| 8 | Now , as chairman of the English Association , " he was but widening the sphere of his watchfulness " . |
| 9 | If he reluctantly yielded on several occasions to such pressure , he much more quickly , and quite as often , violated his word afterwards ; in this he was but his father 's son . |
| 10 | Oh no I the twenty six strike er is just a You know a very very big and er you know er railway man , leader of the strike , buying all the shares because he was But that 's one of the things , because it was a headline in the |
| 11 | That 's what they reckon they used to do but he , I mean he was an old Jew , he was but he was , he was to the Germans . |
| 12 | Er he was but er his wife is deceased erm but I understand he has remarried recently . |
| 13 | ‘ He was but a bearer . ’ |
| 14 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 15 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 16 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |
| 17 | I do n't know who he was but he was with . |
| 18 | No he was , he was but he was quite high up in the Royal Australian Air Force and having today which must have been in the middle of the night because Thursday , bit behind are n't they Australian 's ? |
| 19 | Oh we knew he was but we ! |
| 20 | He was but he 's I do n't know whether he 's back just for today or what ? |
| 21 | Yeah , he was but I ca n't remember what he was |
| 22 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 23 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 24 | In the gasping aftermath ? he had no idea of where he was nor how much noise he had made . |
| 25 | The question of whether he was or was not John became the most important thing in my constricted universe . |
| 26 | Bits that did n't depend on who he was or what family he belonged to . |
| 27 | ‘ Better than nothing , ’ said Harvey , who never seemed to care where he was or what he was doing . |
| 28 | Tock was still a little stunned from the accident and would become confused as to where he was or what he was doing . |
| 29 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 30 | Whether he was or was n't , it was great to have a shot like that at that point . |