Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] was [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A steady eighty miles an hour and where it was at these times . |
| 2 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 3 | It is suggested that it was derived from the hauling of boats along the river and that it was from this place that manual hauling of boats along a tow path began , but in all fairness I think this can be discounted . |
| 4 | I knew that he too would tell me I was wrong and that it was in another part of the country . |
| 5 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 6 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 7 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 8 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 9 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 10 | ‘ My friends were n't going to take any nonsense from me and if I was at all |
| 11 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 12 | Dressing for the afternoon , she wondered what Mrs Darrell was like , and whether she was worth all the tohu-bohu of preparing a slap-up tea , and being formally ‘ At Home ’ , which had resulted in even more work for McAllister , as Sally-Anne was increasingly beginning to think herself when she was being a maid of all work . |