Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accounts were approved and it was moved that " a box be obtained for the Custody of the Deeds , & be lettered " Stockport Grammar School " " . |
| 2 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 3 | It was claimed the birds were related and they 'd been captive bred . |
| 4 | At that time the houses were scattered and there was no village shop ( the mobile shop called once a week ) , although there was a church and a school . |
| 5 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 6 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 7 | Under the empire , in large towns , the shops were cleared and it became the site for more magnificent buildings devoted to the administration of justice , bureaucracy and commerce , as well as for worship . |
| 8 | All the shops were closed and there was a Sunday peace in the little square . |
| 9 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 10 | The shops were closing and there was that burst of activity before things settled down to the evening calm . |
| 11 | On the fifth day the covers were removed and I saw a tiny fish swimming on the surface . |
| 12 | There had been bad harvests and disastrous storms , the spirit of the islanders was broken and they petitioned the government to help them leave St Kilda for good . |
| 13 | There was a break-in , but the books were hidden and none stolen . |
| 14 | The sessions were postponed and he escaped over the roof . |
| 15 | Sixty minutes after the last pulse , the rats were killed and their duodena subjected to evaluation of the mucosal lesions as detailed above . |
| 16 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 17 | The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs . |
| 18 | I realized that the seats were numbered and I collected my bags and went in search of my proper seat . |
| 19 | A contract was a matter for agreement between the respective parents , although the participants were consulted and there was a provision in the Yasa which prevented particularly women from being married off without their consent . |
| 20 | Tilda , an expert mudlark , retrieved most of the purple plastic , but the pieces were broken and it was hard to see what could be done with them . |
| 21 | After the 0/3 bottle of Nat.mur. given every other day beginning with 0/1 , the warts were gone and she was definitely more open and communicative . |
| 22 | All Nora could say was that funds in all the banks were exhausted and their known outgoings over the next four weeks exceeded their best estimate of income three-fold . |
| 23 | A chuchet storm was the time we were just in from April when the peesies were laying and there 'd just a come a flurry of snow . |
| 24 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 25 | She danced in a haze of misery , scarcely noticing when the music changed from vibrant rock-and-roll to ‘ the creep ’ and when the lights were lowered and he pulled her close she could n't be bothered to protest though she was revolted by the smell of beer on his breath ( where had he got it ? ) mingling with strong body odours . |
| 26 | Governors and teachers do not need to be able to work these out , but they should be able to understand how the figures were reached and what such a budgetary report means . |
| 27 | And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society … |
| 28 | ‘ However bitter you may feel about it , the properties were entailed and I am the heir to them , like it or not . ’ |
| 29 | Because the mills were thriving and you would come to Galashiels and get a job right away . |
| 30 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |