Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My little boy Connor , who is five , took to Gemma straight away and we were a really happy family . |
| 2 | But Blattern muttered and walked away and there were no letters that morning . |
| 3 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 4 | But someone had to be got into the job quickly and there were no other obvious candidates . |
| 5 | With any luck , the majority of the rabbits will have been killed and , if everything went well and there were no snags , the population could have been very substantially reduced . |
| 6 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 7 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 8 | Dotted here and there were the various sized pine coverts . |
| 9 | Strawberry 's prints had marked it plainly and there were no others whatsoever . |
| 10 | ‘ We had a lot of youngsters out there and we were a bit too fast and frenetic when we had the ball but that 's down to inexperience . |
| 11 | If I were the Secretary of State for Social Security , which I am not , my nightmare would be the early morning phone call from the Department 's press office saying that an eviction is taking place that day , that the media and particularly the television cameras will be there and asking whether I would be there and what were the Government 's comments . |
| 12 | The tenants were the people who knew the district intimately from years of experience living and farming there and they were the ones who made the decisions in the manor court . |
| 13 | I we I got down there and there were no bugger in ! |
| 14 | We were breathing together again and there were no barriers of disbelief between us . |