Example sentences of "and [pers pn] were [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ Arianna and I were wrong for each other in dozens of ways . |
| 3 | This was our first note of encouragement and we were thankful for it , as we had come to the Island on a delicate mission and we needed support . |
| 4 | I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And we were ready for the clamour . ’ |
| 6 | I was kitted out with a one size too large pair of old EBs and we were ready for the re-education process . |
| 7 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 8 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 9 | Those officers were especially selected from erm the firearms officers we had available at that time and they were responsible for all firearms operations within the county . |
| 10 | In December 1899 , new receiving wards for casuals or tramps were under construction , and they were ready for occupation by the time that Harvey Goldsmith arrived . |
| 11 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 12 | This lasted for three days and they were called-up for questioning several times each day . |