Example sentences of "they [coord] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sellers , dressed in brilliant colours , outshone the purchasers , and , instead of welcoming them , either ignored them or were so rude that they could only have hoped to drive them away . |
| 2 | The Men were progressing up towards them and were just about to reach Woil who , as usual , was swaying back and forth on his stance with a pleasant expression on his face as he intoned , ‘ Lovely Men , so good to me , so generous to Woil who is good and never tries to hurt you . |
| 3 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 4 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 6 | One of the most welcome sights around Hailing which we can thank the Romans for are the pheasants , it is reckoned they were first introduced by them and were quickly established here in Kent . |
| 7 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 8 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 9 | Edward 's extravagant revenge on his erstwhile enemies — the so-called Contrariants — was hardly calculated to reconcile them and was too excessive to repress them . |
| 10 | The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . ) |
| 11 | My mother did n't need them and was far too pretty to wear them if she had needed them . |
| 12 | My mother did n't need them and was far too pretty to wear them even if she had needed them . |
| 13 | When the Dark Elves first split from the rest of Ulthuan many from their own lands did not join them but were still caught in the terrible war that followed , culminating in the destruction of their land by the magics unleashed by the Dark Elf sorcerers . |
| 14 | When the Dark Elves first split from the rest of Ulthuan many from their own lands did not join them but were still caught in the terrible war that followed , culminating in the destruction of their land by the magic unleashed by Dark Elf sorcerers . |
| 15 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 16 | Ryker tried to grab them but was too late . |