Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Robinson said : ‘ There is only one Andy Gregory and he was the most influential player in our years of success since 1987 . |
| 2 | The second man from the left to the right is his home was , the third man was a gunner and his name is his home town was Stirling Nebraska and he was the oldest man on the crew . |
| 3 | And then there was another old-timer , Jose-Maria Canizares and there was the water , something the British have always used to defend themselves from invaders … |
| 4 | His name was Ali Wali and he was the nephew and adopted son of Miriam Muhammad , the Hangadaala or spiritual head of Bahdu . |
| 5 | The Swede was Bjorn Carlssen and he was the current leader of the European Order of Merit — a brilliant player in his mid-twenties , who could hit the ball miles and putted like a dream . |
| 6 | Three teams in 1969 raced four-wheel drive — Lotus , Tyrrell-Matra and who was the third ? |
| 7 | Hans and he had spent the last winter in Nice and it was the only place he wanted to avoid ; the memories were still too painful . |
| 8 | There was the Stewarts and there was the er the Townsleys and Higgins , you called them and Whites that was the four lot . |
| 9 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 10 | Her stage name was Rose Pendennis and she was the daughter of Henry Alfred Kingwell , who had an export business in New Zealand . |
| 11 | The essential difference between Sam and me was the fact that I took life seriously . |
| 12 | His name was Mr Yarrow and he was the youth employment officer . |
| 13 | His name was Philip Sayer and he was the actor who starred in Floodtide and Bluebell and other series and plays you may have seen . |
| 14 | In 1950 the Alfa Romeo team drivers were known as ‘ The Three Fs ’ — Fangio , Farina and who was the third ? |
| 15 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 16 | Even at the end of the sixteenth century , which is a great golden era as far as we were concerned , you know , the madrigal came from Italy and it was the Italian import that influenced English composers , rather than the other way round . |
| 17 | For South Korea there was no love of Japan and there was the current controversy arising from Japanese treatment of the sizeable Korean community living in Japan . |
| 18 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 19 | I once conducted a major European orchestra , a German orchestra , and I conducted the introduction Allegro of Elgar and it was the first time they 'd ever , ever played any Elgar , and they did n't like the piece . |
| 20 | Her real name was Rebecca Salmon and she was the daughter of Dan Salmon who owned the baker 's shop on the corner of Brick Lane . |
| 21 | His name was Jack Murphy and he was the daddy . |
| 22 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 23 | Winning the toss , high-flying Somerset were given an 82 start by Ricky Bartlett and Mark Lathwell and it was the introduction of spinners Phil Carrick and Jeremy Batty which stopped things getting out of hand . |