Example sentences of "was [noun] and they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house . |
| 2 | He insisted the princess could be crowned queen if Charles was king and they lived separate lives but said : ‘ There would be no constitutional bar , but it certainly requires a strong effort of imagination to project oneself forward into that situation . ’ |
| 3 | The Falangists , however , were not monarchists and their rhetoric , if not their ideology , was revolutionary , whereas the very raison d'être of the Carlists was monarchism and they were totally opposed to all revolutionary notions . |
| 4 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 5 | If there was trouble and they became unhappy , a direct visit to the leader or the chief whip would usually suffice . |
| 6 | go to prison is , I mean the only people to go to mountain er was Nepal and they left in Wales and there they orin a region is from making |
| 7 | It was lunchtime and they were on the river . |
| 8 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |