Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing was almost certain — either the top club honours were split , or they were both with East . |
| 2 | this there , or they were there |
| 3 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 4 | And they were outside you know , standing . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking I 'm sure you were Hannah because actually you were inside and they were outside , there 's like a door and the rest of the house between you ! |
| 6 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 7 | In 1523 there were highly rated black ‘ hummel ’ or ‘ humble ’ cattle ( the word means polled ) in the Cutler district of Aberdeenshire and they were carefully maintained in a pure state even then . |
| 8 | According to Mark Siegel , who worked in the Carter White House , With Reagan in the executive mansion the atmosphere was different ; members of congress were pleased to have their telephone calls returned ; where possible they were provided with assistance and they were carefully plyed with the ‘ small potatoes ’ of presidential patronage . |
| 9 | William Herbert had held several of his key posts in tail male and they were accordingly only granted to the duke during the minority of the young earl of Pembroke , William Herbert 11 . |
| 10 | William Herbert had held several of his key posts in tail male and they were accordingly only granted to the duke during the minority of the young earl of Pembroke , William Herbert 11 . |
| 11 | As a game it 's ridiculously shallow and dated — we were playing games like this five years ago , and they were pretty undemanding then ! |
| 12 | Not often the same policeman , and I gained that experience when I found the way that they were examining property , the way they attended to accidents and street disturbances and they were pretty tough customers and I learnt a lot . |
| 13 | These extinct groups can exceed crinoids in number and variety at certain horizons , and they were evidently competing on equal terms . |
| 14 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 15 | These essays made the almanacs widely sought after even when their immediate practical use had passed , and they were later published in book form . |
| 16 | Coleridge and Wordsworth felt confident that the Monthly Magazine would give £5 for the poem , and they were already discussing details of the plot as they descended from the hills at West Quantoxhead . |
| 17 | Sadly , the Belgian State was obliged to let these treasures be auctioned , and they were eventually sold by Sotheby 's in London and at Brussels 's Palais des Beaux-Arts . |
| 18 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 19 | And they were eventually rewarded for their endeavour and spirit with a cracking goal . |
| 20 | And they were probably unaware of the scale of what had been happening , not just in their own field of Public Libraries , which was bad enough , but across the whole spectrum of British Public Institutional Libraries . |
| 21 | There was believed to have been an incestuous relationship between Alfonso and Urraca and they were probably responsible for Sancho 's death . |
| 22 | As his new Control explained , the faction of the Lebanese Forces involved in the aborted Contra arms-for-drugs deal in 1985 were known to have members who were DEA CIs , and they were probably tracking him through credit reports , listing his current address , employer and so forth , obtained through Bank Audi , a Beirut bank with a branch in New York . |
| 23 | What is almost certain is that royal land-holdings were vast , and they were probably particularly impressive in the north . |
| 24 | These jawless proto-fish were mostly quite small , the size of large minnows , and they were heavily armoured . |
| 25 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 26 | Oldham gave Wigan more problems than the scoreline suggests and they were well served by prop Tiny Solomona and scrum half Steve Terry . |
| 27 | Oldham gave Wigan more problems than the scoreline suggests and they were well served by prop Tiny Solomona and scrum half Steve Terry . |
| 28 | For a while television was a rare and special thing ; not many people had it and they were well off . |
| 29 | And the s the trees they would like to come was the pines and the pines because they they 've got a mop like of of leaves do you see , and they were well sheltered there , among these . |
| 30 | It will be the first time Northern Ireland waters have been chosen for the GP14 inland championship , but representatives of the class association have already visited the area , and they were well pleased with their reconnoitre . |