Example sentences of "[coord] [det] was [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 2 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 3 | When we started here we only put in about £100,000 between four of us , to keep us going till the fees came in , and that was more than enough . |
| 4 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 5 | ( Though of course one of the most efficient ways of removing women from the printing houses was to propose marriage , and this was more than once half-seriously proposed as a deliberate strategy . ) |