Example sentences of "the [adj] [coord] [pron] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otis Ferguson thought the only real social comment concerned the unemployed and they were rather haphazardly brought together and in any case upstaged by a boy-girl-siren triangle hung on ‘ the back of such an old love nag as even Hollywood might be ashamed to take out for a canter ’ . |
| 2 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 3 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 4 | Behind the wheel , the 6-litre did n't sound as quiet as the 5.3 but there was no doubting its ability . |
| 5 | ‘ I was stunned to find that you still looked the same and I was very alarmed . ’ |
| 6 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 7 | " It was in the mid-50s and I was about nine or ten years old . |
| 8 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 9 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 10 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 11 | It was completed in the 1980s and I was already daring to suggest that Fascism could return . |
| 12 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |