Example sentences of "and they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 2 | The men 's feelings were not so well defined and they were not to be diverted from their search for tea . |
| 3 | As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension . |
| 4 | In Britain , cinema attendances have doubled in the past decade , and they were up in America last year . |
| 5 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 6 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 7 | And they were n't worth transporting all the way back . |
| 8 | . It was a couple of days notice and they were n't to pleased about it . |
| 9 | Well I rang 'em and they were n't in Albert , our Colin |
| 10 | Yeah tell them that you wanted them , and they were n't like the description |
| 11 | Brearley won the toss and put West Indies in , and the England bowlers did well ; the fourth wicket went down on 99 and they were clearly on top . |
| 12 | Some feared that the concession would weaken the financial discipline on the Boards , though in fact the conditions imposed by the Central Authority raised the South Western Board 's financial targets and they were soon in healthy surplus . |
| 13 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 14 | I have only seen two rats , and they were both outside the house and both dead . |
| 15 | When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school . |
| 16 | By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas . |
| 17 | And they were nowhere near London . |
| 18 | It was late on a Sunday morning and they were still in bed , the radio on but turned down low . |
| 19 | It was very late when they finally had the meal that Felipe had ordered , and they were still in each other 's arms , talking and planning , when dawn began to break . |
| 20 | Well , they were built pre-war , and they were still in good condition and they each had half an acre of land . |
| 21 | , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody |
| 22 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 23 | They rode through the stink of pyres where local men were burning the bodies of the beasts killed the night before , and then the land dipped and they were back in the Dales proper with the hills behind them and some of the chill wind cut off . |
| 24 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 25 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 26 | There were ten teams competing and they were down as ‘ Hawkwood Comprehensive ’ . |
| 27 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 28 | And they were all as one and worshipped they one and the same . |
| 29 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 30 | and it soft it would n't soften up , it stayed hard and they were all over garden . |