Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My girlfriend and I were a conventional hand-holding couple and David and Angela were going to gay clubs at midnight and bringing home people at four in the morning which made things very tense , I would say . ’ |
| 2 | He told His disciples that He was the vine and they were the branches , so that His life flowed in their lives , His life flows in our lives . |
| 3 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 4 | And just I went and got cup of tea and I were a lot better . |
| 5 | ‘ She was just about to leave in a limousine and there were a lot of journalists about . |
| 6 | All three groups of hamsters increased their body weights at the same rate during the study and there were no differences in final mean body weights between the groups . |
| 7 | Criteria for selection were that at least one parent had intractable seizures ; children were of school age ; the family could function in a group setting and there were no major psychiatric or psychological problems . |
| 8 | This is why I can see and hear it so clearly — because there was no electric light and there were no electric sounds . |
| 9 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 10 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 11 | More functional were the fleeces to temper the effect of the wind : Phoenix had a particularly smart Windstopper pullover and there were a number of shelled fleeces . |
| 12 | Who lived in Kuwait before August second and what were the conditions of life . |
| 13 | They 've removed the danger man as far as England were concerned and DaSilva both back in the pavilion and they were the wickets that England needed . |
| 14 | There was no real Academic plan and there were no grounds for confidence that the resource levels necessary to support the standards of the courses leading to the Council 's awards would be maintained . |
| 15 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 16 | Also , one Sunday morning , I took the boat over the swim and stirred the muddy bottom and there were no signs of breadcrumbs in the mudclouds that billowed to the surface . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Ferranti said Sir Derek had no reason to fear a shareholders ' revolt and there were no indications that there would be one . |
| 18 | ‘ The Pru had an awful lot of cost centres , which diffused any sort of financial responsibility and there were no capital expenditure procedures . |
| 19 | There was a still young involvement in national pupil assessment and there were the beginnings of more power being given to , and accountability expected from , governors . |
| 20 | The Smith mourners were all on foot and there were no women present . |
| 21 | The rents were raised , to general dissatisfaction , but were still inadequate to cover the maintenance costs of a poorly constructed building and there were the usual acrimonious disputes between the tenants and the landlords . |
| 22 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 23 | Millet and I were the first to check that tower , after Falconer 's body was discovered by a guard . |
| 24 | Roger Wooton : ‘ David Bowie was the resident singer/ song writer — a sort of folk-pop singer/ song writer and we were a sort of rock/acoustic band — flute , violin , acoustic guitars and female vocalist , doing sets each week at the club which was the start of our career . |
| 25 | Life in Fontanellato was certainly not dull : there were plenty of people about , even if we had no cinema and there were no dances . |
| 26 | Major J. W. Pringle reported that he had examined the car and found that the body had separated from the truck and there were a number of deep chips on the outside edges of the tyres of the wheels . |
| 27 | to the factory to keep the factory going for the factory you see was up in Hunton 's field and there were a lot of Stronsay men in it . |
| 28 | I was a young engineer and they were a young band , and we were all finding our way . |
| 29 | At an FA inquiry in February , City pleaded that , because of a tram strike on Christmas Day , the crowd arrived late for the match and there were no police to stop them rushing the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ this was our first match and there were the inevitable nerves . |