Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 2 | What , what happened was Robert , Rob and me shouted , Robert and me were there and who was it , Helen was there I think as well , his ex girlfriend we were going go on Jon , go on jump and everybody in the pool started it go on Jonathan |
| 3 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 4 | And I was here when the Colonel died . |
| 5 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 6 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 7 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 8 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 9 | And I was there until I was about eighteen . |
| 10 | The business was there and , and I was there when he went . |
| 11 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 12 | And I was there till I was erm twenty six years in . |
| 13 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 14 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 15 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 16 | He asked me out , and I was more than pleased to accept . |
| 17 | Reflecting on that marvellous performance Jim Nelson said : ‘ With five minutes to go we were trailing by four points and I was more than happy to get a share of the points . |
| 18 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 19 | And er one old lady , that only recently died about three years ago , at about ninety seven , and she was there when I was a child . |
| 20 | She had recognised that Jack 's jail sentence would probably — with parole — be fairly short , a year or two maybe , and she was more than prepared to sit those years out , now , in return for normal family life . |
| 21 | Last time she was the agent for the then-MP , Mr Ian Wrigglesworth , and she was more than willing to step into his shoes . |
| 22 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 23 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 24 | And we were there when it left . |
| 25 | They finished and we were backstage and our guys were setting up our stuff and all these bikers in the audience started to chant , ‘ Poofter , poofter , ’ which was aimed at me , and we were thinking , ‘ Oh know , this is ugly . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 27 | And they were anyhow so they had a brand new telly . |
| 28 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 29 | And he was here before he bought the place . |
| 30 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |