Example sentences of "and [subord] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 2 | And where they were seen or heard , to be treated and reflected as a person first — and as a black person , an Asian person , a woman or someone with a disability second or not at all . |
| 3 | They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 . |
| 4 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 5 | He told me about himself and where he was staying and about how people treated him . |
| 6 | It went into the farmhouses where he lodged overnight and where he was known and befriended . |
| 7 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 8 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 9 | And so you were going as well . |
| 10 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 11 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 12 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 13 | Lincoln had a ‘ dream start ’ , and although I was closing and closing I could n't make it . |
| 14 | Remember the boys are at home and if I was to go and ask Martin he would immediately say yes . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 16 | We were easy targets for ridicule , and because we were angered and hurt by all of this , we withdrew further into ourselves , and stopped having contact with heterosexual women almost entirely . |
| 17 | And because she was remembering that , when Albert said , ‘ It 's her ring , is n't it ? ’ she was n't altogether surprised , only felt a little , shivery shock , as if something she had been half-expecting to happen , had happened at last . |
| 18 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 19 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 20 | I kept doing these funny little laughs all the way home and while I was developing and printing the film . |
| 21 | The first task with a coin , as with any other artefact , is to try to establish its date and attribute it to a place of manufacture and authority , since we must know where and when it was made before it can give us any information about the past . |
| 22 | Rumours of such ‘ snuff ’ movies had been carefully fostered in the New York Press with accounts of private screenings at Mafia parties , and when it was claimed that one had been acquired for public exhibition , it was advertised with the slogan : ‘ Blood Money , the film that could only be made in South America … where Life is CHEAP ! ’ |
| 23 | Erm and when it was established that there was something serious here to question , they went and arrested him . |
| 24 | Not everyone was patriote , and when it was finished and the enemy had left our soil , there were those who did not speak the truth about what happened . ’ |
| 25 | The William Roberts Action group had a meeting with Norman Wilkinson ( Director of Sports and Leisure ) on May 19 and when he was asked if there was any money in the budget for a new pool he said that there was not . |
| 26 | And when she was dressed and ready , she took her necklace out of some box or cupboard and clasped it round her throat , to complete her outfit . |
| 27 | fucking , fucking crap and as I was saying that my voice broke and I walked off and I started crying |
| 28 | And as she was say as she was telling us this the door bell went . |