Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 3 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 4 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 5 | There were two key components to this , there were things that er were labelled feature demons and there were things which were labelled cognitive demons . |
| 6 | Six nappies , even wet ones , did not weigh that much , and there were others who were willing to help . |
| 7 | Some wished to receive Communion in the parish church and there were others who wished to receive Communion from Methodist preachers . |
| 8 | And there were others who saw Chilperic 's rule as something new . |
| 9 | There were some people , some schools , who said ‘ yes , it 's absolutely vital , we just could not get on without it at all ’ and there were others who were questioning whether that was money spent the best way for special needs . |
| 10 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 11 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 12 | Dr Spock 's Baby And Child Care was published first in the United States in 1947 and in Britain in 1955 and there were mothers who boasted they had worn out several copies . |
| 13 | But , wrote Michael Ramsey in retrospect — it is his own but — ‘ he had wit and generosity and there were pupils who had deep affection for him . |
| 14 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 15 | ‘ Scotland was riding along fairly well and there were hopes it would be able to come through . |
| 16 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 17 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 18 | We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire . |
| 19 | She straightened sharply , and grinned at me , but her face was pale and there were shadows I had n't noticed a moment before . |
| 20 | And there was Chernayev who was a thief , and Byrkin who had been a naval Petty Officer , and Mamarev who they said was an informer . |
| 21 | She moved on , overhearing talk of broccoli , of death in Kabul , of the phenomenal transatlantic success of Pete Petrie 's new novel , and there was Petrie himself talking to that little monster Ivan about his meeting with Norman Mailer , whooping with laughter , and hitting his own bald head with emphatic glee . |
| 22 | There was Sammy and Davie and and er from Comely Bank , Willie and Jim they were all Stevedores and Andrew and They were stevedores you see a lot of . |
| 23 | They liked and respected Carrie 's father , who had been their foreman at Galloway 's , and it was Sharkey who had told Carrie about Fred wanting a serving-girl for the cafe . |
| 24 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 25 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 26 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 27 | Chapman took the defensive centre-half idea from a suggestion by Buchan , and it was Buchan who proposed another tactical innovation . |
| 28 | And it was Meli who went with him to Brighton . |
| 29 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 30 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |